Nolanea

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

Nolanea has been defined as a genus of small gray to brown pink-spored mushrooms that are mostly saprotrophic and grow on the ground. The cap can be conical, convex or umbonate in shape, often with a silky top. The gills have adnexed to adnate attachment (they can also be a little decurrent) and the stalk is fragile and often hollow. The spores are angular and are flesh colored to pink. Nolaneas are well known for being difficult to identify.

Nolanea was introduced as a tribus in Elias Magnus Fries' 1821 work Systema Mycologicum.[1] It is usually considered a subgenus of the large genus Entoloma rather than a genus in its own right.[2][3] This is reinforced by data produced by the molecular study by Moncalvo in 2002, with species of Nolanea, Leptonia and Inocephalus interspersed with various pinkgill species in a broadly monophyletic entolomatoid group.[4]

Little is known about the edibility of Nolaneas, and some are poisonous.

Species

As of April 2016, Index Fungorum accepts 20 species of Nolanea:[5]

References

  1. Fries EM. (1821). Systema Mycologicum (in Latin) 1. Lundin, Sweden: Ex Officina Berlingiana. pp. 10, 207.
  2. Kuo, Michael (January 2013). "Entolomatoid mushrooms. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site". MushroomExpert.Com. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  3. "Index Fungorum". Index Fungorum. 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
  5. Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 25th March 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Henkel TW, Aime MC, Largent DL, Baroni TJ. (2014). "The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana 6: Ten new species and one combination of Nolanea". Mycotaxon 129 (1): 119–148. doi:10.5248/129.119.
  7. Largent DL. (1994). Entolomatoid fungi of the Western United States and Alaska. Berkeley, USA: Mad River Press. pp. 240, 274. ISBN 978-0916422813.

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