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]
	Agaricus alphitophorus Berk. (1877); Mycena osmundicola J.E.Lange (1914); Mycena osmundicola subsp. imleriana Kühner (1938); Mycena osmundicola var. imleriana (Kühner) A.Pearson (1952); Prunulus alphitophorus (Berk.) Murrill (1916);

Mycena alphitophora is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. Its small, white, delicate fruit bodies are characterized by the powdery coatings on the surfaces of both the cap and stipe. The stipe base is not swollen or disk-like. The stipe surface is more hairy than M. tenerrima.

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.

Similar species

Mycena tenerrima has a swollen or disk-like stipe base; also, the stipe surface is more densely hairy with caulocystida. Mycena stylobates has a pruinose stipe that arises from a basal disc, but the cap is up to 10 mm and lacks white granules. White Hemimycena species lack granules and all have inamyloid spores.[6]

References

"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.
Desjarind DE; Wood MG; Stevens FA (2015). California Mushrooms. The comprehensive identification guide. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-60469-353-9.

External links

Mycena alphitophora in Index Fungorum

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[urlFungorum:_Mycena_alphitophora-1] "Synonyms: Mycena alphitophora (Berk.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 290 (1887)". Index Fungorum CAB International. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

[Berkeley_1875-2] 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_1916-3] Murrill WA (1916). "Agaricaceae Tribe Agariceae". North American Flora. 9 (5): 297–374 (see p. 339).

[Lange_1914-4] Lange JE (1914). "Studies in the Agarics of Denmark. Part I. Mycena". Dansk botanisk Arkiv. 1 (5): 1–40 (see p. 35).

[Manimohan_1989-5] 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.

[Desjardin_2015-6] Desjarind DE; Wood MG; Stevens FA (2015). California Mushrooms. The comprehensive identification guide. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-60469-353-9.