| Meottomyces | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Meottomyces Vizzini (2008) [1] |
| Type species | |
| Meottomyces dissimulans (Berk. & Br.) Vizzini (2008) | |
Meottomyces is a small genus of relatively nondescript, fleshy, brown mushrooms related to Tubaria . [2] [3] [4] In older classifications it had been included in Pholiota , [5] Phaeogalera , [2] [6] or Hemipholiota . [3] Modern molecular evidence suggested recognition of a separate genus when sequences of a collection first identified as Pholiota oedipus, now reclassified in Meottomyces, revealed a unique branch. [4] [7] Subsequently, that species was studied by Holec [8] and later as Phaeogalera oedipus was shown to be distinct from Tubaria [2] [9] but not the type of Phaeogalera itself. Additional phylogenetic support was provided by Gitte Petersen and others, who clearly showed a separation from Phaeogalera . [4] The genus was erected by Vizzini, [1] for two species and two varieties, all former members of Pholiota . [5] Vizzini treated the name Pholiota oedipus as a misapplied name, but this was contested by Legon, who provided detailed notes on the types and ecology of the type species. [3]
The genus is named after an Italian mycologist, Francesco Meotto, who studies ectomycorrhizal fungi. [10]
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