| Coprinellus xanthothrix | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Psathyrellaceae |
| Genus: | Coprinellus |
| Species: | C. xanthothrix |
| Binomial name | |
| Coprinellus xanthothrix (Romagn.) Vilgalys, Hopple & Jacq. Johnson |
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Coprinellus xanthothrix is a species of fungus in the Psathyrellaceae family. This species was isolated from a polyphenol-polluted site near an olive processing plant in Greece. Shown to have the enzymes laccase and manganese peroxidase, the fungus is able to decolorize the recalcitrant polymeric dye R-478.[1] First described as Coprinus xanthothrix by the French mycologist Henri Romagnesi in 1941, it was later transferred to the genus Coprinellus in 2001.[2]