Mycenella

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Mycenella
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Mycenella bryophila
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Mycenella

(J.E.Lange) Singer (1938)
Type species
Mycenella cyatheae
Singer (Singer) (1938)
Species

M. bryophila
M. margaritispora
M. minima
M. polylepidis
M. radicata
M. receptibilis
M. rubropunctata
M. salicina
M. trachyspora
M. variispora

Mycenella is a genus of fungi in the Tricholomataceae family. The widespread genus contains 10 species, found mostly in temperate regions. [1] Mycologist Rolf Singer circumscribed the genus in 1938. [2]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Tricholomataceae family of fungi

The Tricholomataceae are a large family of mushrooms within the Agaricales. A classic "wastebasket taxon", the family is inclusive of any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. the Amanitaceae, Lepiotaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Pluteaceae, or Entolomataceae.

Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms (agarics) in the 20th century.

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References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 446. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Singer R. (1938). "De nonnullis Basidiomycetibus. I". Botanicheskie Materialy Otdela Sporovyh Rastenij Botanicheskogo Instituti Imeni V.L. Komarova. 4 (10–12): 4–18.