Calathella

Calathella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Genus: Calathella
D.A. Reid
Type species
Calathella eruciformis
(P. Micheli ex Batsch) D.A. Reid
Species

C. albolivida
C. columbiana
C. dichroa
C. digitiformis
C. ellisii
C. eruciformis
C. gayana
C. mangrovei
Synonyms

1951 Flagelloscypha Donk

Calathella is a genus of fungi in the Marasmiaceae family of mushrooms. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the genus contains nine species found in Europe and North America.[1] The genus was circumscribed by the English mycologist Derek Reid in 1964.[2]

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Description

The genus contains fungi that produce small tubular or cup-shaped cyphelloid fruit bodies. The fruit bodies are characterized by encrusted surface hairs with rounded tips, urniform basidia (swollen at the base), and spores that range in shape from oblong-elliptical to cylindrical.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. ^ Reid DA. (1964). "Notes on some fungi of Michigan-I. Cyphellaceae". Persoonia 3: 97–154. 
  3. ^ Sulzbacher MA, Desjardin DE, Putzke J. (2008). "Calathella columbiana (Basidiomycota): new record of a cyphelloid fungus from Brazil". Mycotaxon 105: 37–42. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0105/0037.htm. 

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