Cotylidia

Cotylidia
Cotylidia aurantiaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Rickenellaceae
Genus: Cotylidia
P.Karst
Type species
Cotylidia undulata
(Fr.) P.Karst.

Cotylidia is a fungal genus characterized by small to moderately sized, white to palely- yet brightly-colored, stalked, fan-shaped to funnel-shaped fruitbodies [1][2] with a smooth to wrinkled hymenium, tissues composed of monomitic hyphae, basidia producing smooth, nonamyloid spores, the absence of clamp connections, and bearing projecting cylindrical, thin-walled, hymenial cystidia. The genus is classified in the Hymenochaetales,[1][2][3] however the type species, C. undulata has not yet been sequenced. Phylogenetically-related agaricoid fungi to the two species of Cotylidia thus far sequenced are in the genera Rickenella, Contumyces, Gyroflexus, Loreleia, Cantharellopsis and Blasiphalia, and Muscinupta[4] and the clavarioid genus, Alloclavaria.

The ecological status of Cotylidia remains unresolved. They fruit on soil or plant debris, sometimes on burn sites or among bryophytes. The culture characteristics are unknown.

Etymology

The specific epithet is derived from Greek and meaning "small cup" in reference to the fluted glass shape.

References

  1. ^ Redhead, S.A. et al. (2002). "Phylogeny of agarics: partial systematics solutions for bryophilous omphalinoid agarics outside of the Agaricales (euagarics)". Mycotaxon 82: 151–168. 
  2. ^ Larsson, K.-H. et al. (2004). "High phylogenetic diversity among corticioid homobasidiomycetes". Mycol. Res. 108 (Pt 9): 983–1002. doi:10.1017/S0953756204000851. PMID 15506012. 
  3. ^ Reid, D.A. (1965). "A monograph of the stipitate stereoid fungi". Beih. Nova Hedwigia 18: 1–382. 
  4. ^ Larsson, K.-H. et al. (2006 [2007]). "Hymenochaetales: a molecular phylogeny for the hymenochaetoid clade". Mycologia 98 (6): 926–936. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.926. PMID 17486969. 

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