Mycena alphitophora
| Mycena alphitophora | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Mycenaceae |
| Genus: | Mycena |
| Species: | M. alphitophora |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycena alphitophora (Berk.) Sacc. (1887) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Mycena alphitophora is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Its small, delicate fruit bodies are characterized by the powdery coatings on the surfaces of both the cap and stipe.
Taxonomy
The species was first described as Agaricus alphitophorus by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1877, based on specimens collected in 1873 from the Devonshire Marsh, a peatland in Bermuda.[2] Pier Andrea Saccardo transferred it to the genus Mycena in 1887. William Alphonso Murrill placed the species in Prunulus in 1916.[3] Jakob Emanuel Lange's Mycena osmundicola, published in 1914,[4] is a synonym.[1] P. Manimohan and K.M. Leelavathy defined the varieties distincta and globispora from southern India in 1989.[5] It is classified in the section Saccharifera of Mycena.
References
- 1 2 "Synonyms: Mycena alphitophora (Berk.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 290 (1887)". Index Fungorum CAB International. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ Berkeley MJ. (1877). "Enumeration of fungi collected during the expedition of H.M.S. 'Challenger'". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 15: 48–53. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1876.tb00220.x.
- ↑ Murrill WA. (1916). "Agaricaceae Tribe Agariceae". North American Flora 9 (5): 297–374 (see p. 339).
- ↑ Lange JE. (1914). "Studies in the Agarics of Denmark. Part I. Mycena". Dansk botanisk Arkiv 1 (5): 1–40 (see p. 35).
- ↑ Manimohan P, Leelavathy KM. (1989). "Two new varieties of Mycena alphitophora from Southern India". Mycological Research 93 (1): 118–20. doi:10.1016/S0953-7562(89)80150-9.