Humidicutis marginata

Humidicutis marginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Humidicutis
Species: H. marginata
Binomial name
Humidicutis marginata
(Peck) Singer
Synonyms
  • Hygrophorus marginatus Peck
  • Hydrocybe marginata (Peck) Murrill
  • Tricholoma marginatum (Peck) Singer
Humidicutis marginata
Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is umbonate
hymenium is adnexed
stipe is bare
spore print is white
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: unknown

Humidicutis marginata is a gilled fungus of the waxcap family.

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Hygrophorus marginatus by Charles Horton Peck in 1876.[1] William Alphonso Murrill called it Hydrocybe marginata in 1916.[2] It was transferred to the new genus Humidicutis by Rolf Singer in 1958,[3] who had previously placed it in Tricholoma.[4]

References

  1. ^ Peck CH. (1876). "Report of the Botanist (1874)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History 28: 31–88. 
  2. ^ Murrill WA. (1916). "Agaricaceae tribe Agariceae". North American Flora 9 (6): 375–421. 
  3. ^ Singer R. (1958). "Fungi Mexicani, series secunda - Agaricales". Sydowia 12: 221–34. 
  4. ^ Singer R. (1943). "Type studies on Basidiomycetes. II". Mycologia 35 (2): 142–63. doi:10.2307/3754706. JSTOR 3754706.