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Clitocybula

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Hydropus, Megacollybia, Gerronema, Baeospora, Whitelaced shank

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

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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

  • Clitocybula abundans (Peck) Singer 1954
  • Clitocybula aperta (Peck) Singer 1962
  • Clitocybula atrialba (Murrill) Singer 1954
  • Clitocybula atroalba (Murrill) Singer 1962
  • Clitocybula azurea Singer 1973
  • Clitocybula canariensis Barrasa, Esteve-Rav. & Dähncke 2006 – Canary Islands
  • Clitocybula esculenta Nagas. & Redhead 1988 – Japan
  • Clitocybula familia (Peck) Singer 1954
  • 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 1962
  • 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
  • References

    Clitocybula Wikipedia