| Pseudoomphalina | |
|---|---|
|   | |
| Pseudoomphalina kalchbrenneri | |
| Scientific classification   | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Fungi | 
| Division: | Basidiomycota | 
| Class: | Agaricomycetes | 
| Order: | Agaricales | 
| Family: | Tricholomataceae | 
| Genus: | Pseudoomphalina (Singer) Singer (1956) | 
| Type species | |
| Pseudoomphalina kalchbrenneri (Bres.) Singer (1956) | |
| Species | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
| Neohygrophorus Singer ex Singer (1962) [2] | |
Pseudoomphalina is a genus of fungi placed in the family Tricholomataceae for convenience. The genus contains six species that are widespread in northern temperate areas. [1] [3] Pseudoomphalina was circumscribed by Rolf Singer in 1956. [4] Pseudoomphalina was found to be paraphyletic to Neohygrophorus in a molecular phylogenetics study and since Pseudoomphalina is an older name, Neohygrophyorus was synonymized with it. [1] The type species of Neohygrophorus was Neohygrophorus angelesianus, now Pseudoomphalina angelesiana . [2] [1] In earlier classifications based on anatomy prior to DNA sequence-based classifications, its unusual combination of features led taxonomists to independently create two subgenera in two genera: Hygrophorus subg. Pseudohygrophorus [5] [6] and Clitocybe subg. Mutabiles; [7] [8] the latter based on Neohygrophorus angelesianus but described under a new species name which is now placed in synonymy, Clitocybe mutabilis. All species of Pseudoomphalina are united by the presence of clamp-connections in their hyphae, an interwoven gill trama and amyloid spores. Pseudoomphalina angelesiana possesses grey-violaceous pigments that turn red in alkali solutions and lacks filiform, hyphal sterile elements in its hymenium and stipitipellis. [1] These were features used to distinguish it from Pseudoomphalina as a genus, but Pseudoomphalina umbrinopurpurascens possesses these same pigments and the filiform elements of Pseudoomphalina. [1] Molecular phylogenetics studies have also found some former species of Pseudoomphalina to belong in other genera. Pseudoomphalina pachyphylla was moved to its own genus, Pseudolaccaria , and Pseudoomphalina clusiliformis was synonymized with it. [1] Pseudoomphalina flavoaurantia and Pseudoomphalina lignicola were found to belong in Clitocybula . [9] Phylogenetically, Pseudoomphalina is in a tricholomatoid clade but not in the Tricholomataceae. [10] [11]