Clitocybula Explained

Clitocybula is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Porotheleaceae but was originally classified within Marasmiaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Georges Métrod in 1952. Species in the genus are commonly known as "coincaps".

Description

Clitocybula fruit bodies are small- to medium-sized, with a morphology ranging from clitocyboid, collybioid, mycenoid, pleurotoid, to omphalinoid. Gills are decurrent, and the stipe is cylindrical and equal in width throughout its length. Clitocybula spores are smooth, ellipsoid to roughly spherical in shape, hyaline (translucent), and mostly amyloid (staining with Melzer's reagent).

Species

Image Name Distribution
Clitocybula abundans (Peck) Singer 1954North America
Clitocybula aperta (Peck) Singer 1962North America
Clitocybula atrialba (Murrill) Singer 1962(Now Gerronema atrialba[1])North America
Clitocybula azurea Singer 1973Brazil and Venezuela
Clitocybula canariensis Barrasa, Esteve-Rav. & Dähncke 2006 Canary Islands
Clitocybula ellipsospora N Santamaria, L Rubio-Casas, JC Zamora 2022 Iberian Peninsula[2]
Clitocybula esculenta Nagas. & Redhead 1988 Japan
Clitocybula familia (Peck) Singer 1954North America, Europe
Clitocybula flavoaurantia (Contu) E.F.Malysheva, O.Morozova & Contu 2011 Italy
Clitocybula globispora (Raithelh.) Raithelh. 1983
Clitocybula grisella (G.Stev. & G.M.Taylor) E.Horak 1971
Clitocybula intermedia (Kauffman) Raithelh. 1979
Clitocybula lacerata (Scop.) Métrod 1952 United Kingdom
Clitocybula lignicola (Lar.N. Vassiljeva) E.F.Malysheva & O.Morozova 2011
Clitocybula mellea Singer 1954
Clitocybula oculata (Murrill) H.E.Bigelow 1973
Clitocybula oculus (Peck) Singer 1962North America
Clitocybula omphaliiformis Pegler 1977
Clitocybula paropsis Raithelh. 1990
Clitocybula striata Dähncke, Contu & Vizzini 2010
Clitocybula taniae Vila 2002 Europe
Clitocybula tarnensis (Speg.) Singer 1954
Clitocybula tilieti (Singer) Singer 1962
Clitocybula wildpretii (Bañares, Beltrán-Tej. & Bon) Esteve-Rav., Barrasa & Bañares 2008

See also

Notes and References

  1. Antonín . Vladimír . Borovička . Jan . Holec . Jan . Piltaver . Andrej . Kolařík . Miroslav . June 2019 . Taxonomic update of Clitocybula sensu lato with a new generic classification . Fungal Biology . 123 . 6 . 431–447 . 10.1016/j.funbio.2019.03.004 . 1878-6146 . 31126420. 146048025 .
  2. Santamaria . N . Rubio-Casas . L . Zamora . J.C . October 2022 . Clitocybula ellipsospora, a new species found in the Iberian Peninsula . Fungi Iberici . 2 . 75–88. 10.51436/funiber/02.005 .