Arachnion

Arachnion
Arachnion album
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Arachnion
Schwein. (1822)
Type species
Arachnion album
Schwein. (1822)
Synonyms[1]

Arachnion is a genus of gasteroid fungi in the family Agaricaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by Lewis David von Schweinitz in 1822 with Arachnion album as the type, and only species.[3] The genus name is Greek for "cobweb".

William Chambers Coker and John Nathaniel Couch circumscribed the family Arachniaceae in 1928 to contain Arachnion.[4] The genus was later placed in the now-defunct family Lycoperdaceae.[5] Modern molecular analysis has shown that Arachnion, as well as other puffball genera, are part of the family Agaricaceae.[6]

Description

Arachnion species have a characteristic gleba, resembling a mass of grainy, sand-like particles. At a microscopic scale, the granules are peridioles, or tiny sacs made of hyphae that contain spores. Inside each sac is a miniscule chamber that contains inward-facing basidia (spore-bearing cells), an arrangement similar to that seen in Lycoperdon. The fruitbodies have a smooth, thin, and fragile peridium that readily disintegrates into small pieces in maturity to expose the granular contents.[4]

Distribution

The genus is widely distributed, with species found in Australia, North and South America, South Africa, and Europe, and Japan.[7]

Species

As of January 2016, Index Fungorum accepts 11 species in Arachnion:[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Synonymy: Arachnion Schwein.". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-10-25.
  2. ↑ Berkeley MJ. (1843). "Enumeration of fungi, collected by Herr Zeyher in Uitenhage". London Journal of Botany 2: 507–527.
  3. 1 2 von Schweinitz LD. (1822). "Synopsis fungorum Carolinae superioris" (in Latin) 1: 20–131 (see p. 59).
  4. 1 2 Johnson MM, Coker WS, Couch JN. (1974) [First published 1928]. The Gasteromycetes of the Eastern United States and Canada. New York, New York: Dover Publications. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-486-23033-7.
  5. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, David JC, Stalpers JA. (2001). Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi (9th ed.). Oxon, UK: CABI Bioscience. ISBN 978-0-85199-377-5.
  6. ↑ Trierveiler-Pereira L, Kreisel H, Baseia IG. (2010). "New data on puffballs (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) from the Northeast Region of Brazil". Mycotaxon 111: 411–421.
  7. ↑ Kasuya T, Orihara T, Fukiharu T, Yoshimi S. (2006). "A lycoperdaceous fungus, Arachnion album (Agaricales, Arachniaceae), newly found in Japan". Mycoscince 47: 385–387. doi:10.1007/s10267-006-0316-6.
  8. ↑ Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 23rd December 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  9. 1 2 Verwoerd L. (1926). "Addisionele beskrywings van enkele Suid-Afrikaanse Gasteromycetes" (PDF). South African Journal of Science 23: 290–294.
  10. ↑ Montagne JPFC. (1849). "Sixièmes Centurie de plantes cellulaires nouvelles, tant indigènes qu'exotiques. Décades III à VI". Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique. III (in French) 11: 33–66.
  11. ↑ Spegazzini C. (1906). "Mycetes Argentinenses (series III)". Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Buenos Aires. III 16 (9): 25–33.
  12. ↑ Quadraccia L. (1996). "Studies on Italian Gasteromycetes. I. Two new species of Arachnion and Radiigera (Basidiomycotina, Lycoperdales) from Rome and its environs". Mycotaxon 58: 331–341.
  13. 1 2 Demoulin V. (1972). "Observations sur le genre Arachnion Schw. (Gasteromycetes)". Nova Hedwigia (in French) 21: 641–655.
  14. ↑ Lloyd CG. (1906). "Mycological Notes 21". Mycological Writiings 2 (21): 245–260.
  15. ↑ Lloyd CG. (1915). "Mycological Notes 39". Mycological Writings 4: 525–540.

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