Mycetinis opacus

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Mycetinis opacus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Omphalotaceae
Genus: Mycetinis
Species:
M. opacus
Binomial name
Mycetinis opacus
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) A.W.Wilson and Desjardin (2005)
Synonyms[1]
  • Marasmius opacus Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1849)
  • Chamaeceras opacus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Kuntze (1898)
  • Marasmiellus opacus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Singer (1951)
  • Gymnopus opacus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.L.Mata & R.H.Petersen (2004)

Mycetinis opacus is a species of agaric fungus first described in 1849 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis as Marasmius opacus.[2] Andrew Wilson and Dennis Desjardin transferred it to Mycetinis in 2005.[3]

It is found in North America (and rarely in Japan) growing especially on dead Rhododendron material, but also on debris of oak, pine, and eastern hemlock. The cap reaches only to about 2 cm diameter and it has conspicuous pale mycelial cords. Unlike some other Mycetinis species, it does not smell of garlic.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "GSD Species Synonymy: Mycetinis opacus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) A.W. Wilson & Desjardin". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-30.
  2. ^ Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA. (1849). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXI-XXII. North and South Carolina Fungi". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 1: 97–104.
  3. ^ Wilson AW, Desjardin DE. (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships in the gymnopoid and marasmioid fungi (Basidiomycetes, euagarics clade)". Mycologia. 97 (3): 667–9. doi:10.1080/15572536.2006.11832797. PMID 16392255. S2CID 218589623.
  4. ^ Petersen RH, Hughes KW (2017). "An investigation on Mycetinis (Euagarics, Basidiomycota)". MycoKeys (26): 1–138. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.24.12846.