Anamika (fungus)
| Anamika | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Cortinariaceae |
| Genus: | Anamika K.A.Thomas, Peintner, M.M.Moser & Manim. |
| Type species | |
| Anamika indica K.A.Thomas, Peintner, M.M.Moser & Manim. | |
| Species | |
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A. angustilamellata | |
Anamika is a genus of fungus in the Cortinariaceae family.[1]Fruit body small sized, pileus non-hygrophanous, smooth, glabrous, slightly sticky when moist; pileus margin incurved and entire when young, becoming decurved and fissile with age;cotext pale brown. Lamellae adnate; stipe central, terete, equal or enlarged towards both ends, slightly furfuraceous with a cortina when young, which often leaves inconspicuous annular remnants. Spore print brown. Spores amygdaliform to sublimoniform, thick-walled, epitunica strongly developed with cavernous type of ornamentation, with a conspicuous callus and without germ-pore. Lamella edge sterile with cheilocystidia; pleurocystidia present similar to cheilocystidia. Hymenophoral trama regular. Pileipellis an epicutis, repent thin-walled hyphae with pale bownish incrustation. Caulocystidia occurring in small clusters or scattered. Clamps present in all tissues. [2]
Distribution
Recently, Anamika indica has been recorded from the semi-evergreen to evergreen forests in the Western Ghats, Kerala, India. [2] This species occurs solitary, gregarious to scattered on soil under Dipterocarpus sp. probably forming ectomycorrhiza. [2]