Leptonia

Leptonia
Entoloma subgenus Leptonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Entolomataceae
Genus: Leptonia
(Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871)
Species

Leptonia bicolor
Leptonia carnea
Leptonia foliomarginata[1]
Leptonia gracilipes
Leptonia incana
Leptonia nigroviolacea
Leptonia occidentalis
Leptonia parva
Leptonia quinquecolor
Leptonia sericella

Leptonia has been defined as a genus of small and medium sized pink-spored mushrooms that contains over 100 species. They are saprotrophic and most grow on the ground, but some are found on wood. The cap is thin and can be convex, plane, often depressed and usually has small scales. The gills are widely spaced, usually having adnexed to adnate attachment (rarely they can be a little decurrent) and the stalk is fragile. The spores are angular and are flesh colored to pink. Some Leptonia species have distinctive colors such as black, blue, green, yellow, and violet, but even these are difficult to identify.

Some modern taxonomic authorities do not recognize Leptonia as a genus in its own right, but only as a subgenus of Entoloma.[2][3]

Little is known about the edibility of mushrooms of this group, and some are poisonous. Data produced by the molecular study by Moncalvo in 2002, has species of Nolanea, Leptonia and Inocephalus interspersed with various Entoloma species in a broadly monophyletic entolomatoid group.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Baroni TJ. (2014-07-09). "Nomenclatural novelties". Index Fungorum 177: 1.
  2. ↑ "Record details: Leptonia (Fr.) P. Kumm.". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  3. ↑ Kuo, Michael (January 2013). "Entolomatoid mushrooms. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site". MushroomExpert.Com. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  4. ↑ Moncalvo JM, et al. 2002. One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:357-400. Available from: http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/faculty/moncalvo/117clade.pdf

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