Laccaria
| Laccaria | |
|---|---|
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| Laccaria bicolor | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hydnangiaceae |
| Genus: | Laccaria Berk. & Broome |
| Type species | |
| Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Cooke | |
Laccaria is a genus around 75 species of fungus found in both temperate and tropical regions of the world.[1][2] They are mycorrhizal. The type species is Laccaria laccata, commonly known as the deceiver. Other notable species include L. bicolor, and the amethyst deceiver (L. amethystina), sometimes incorrectly written as L. amethystea. Because some Laccaria species have the ability to grow vegetatively and/or germinate from basidiospores in culture, they are often used as experimental systems for studies of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes.[3] Recently, the genome of L. bicolor has been sequenced.[4]
Description
Laccaria typically have thick, widely spaced, purple to flesh-colored gills that are adnate to slightly decurrent in attachment. The spores are white and ornamented in most species.[5]
Species list
The following is an incomplete list of Laccaria species reported in the literature:
- Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis
- Laccaria amethystina
- Laccaria alba
- Laccaria angustilamella
- Laccaria bicolor
- Laccaria fraterna
- Laccaria gomezii
- Laccaria laccata
- Laccaria longipes
- Laccaria maritima
- Laccaria montana
- Laccaria nobilis
- Laccaria paraphysata
- Laccaria proxima
- Laccaria pseudomontana
- Laccaria pumila
- Laccaria purpureobadia
- Laccaria tetraspora
- Laccaria tortilis
- Laccaria vinaceobrunnea
Gallery
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Laccaria amethysta
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Laccaria bicolor
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Laccaria laccata
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Laccaria proxima
References
- ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th ed. Wallingford: CABI. p. 357. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
- ↑ Mueller GM. (1985). Numerical taxonomic analyses on Laccaria (Agaricales). Mycologia 77: 121-129.
- ↑ Podila GK, Zheng J, Balasubramanian S, Sundaram S, Hiremath S, Brand JH, Hymes MJ. (2002). Fungal gene expression in early symbiotic interactions between Laccaria bicolor and red pine. Plant and Soil 244: 117–128.
- ↑ Martin F, Selosse MA. (2008). The Laccaria genome: a symbiont blueprint decoded. New Phytologist 180(2):296-310.
- ↑ Orr, Dorothy B.; Orr, Robert Thomas (1980). Mushrooms of Western North America (California Natural History Guides). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03660-3.
External links
- Mueller, Gregory M. (1984). "New North American species of Laccaria (Agaricales)". Mycotaxon 20 (1): 101–116. (Archived at: CYBERLIBER: an Electronic Library for Mycology.)
- Mueller, Gregory M. (1992). "Systematics of Laccaria (Agaricales) in the continental United States and Canada, with discussions on extralimital taxa and descriptions of extant types". Fieldiana Botany 30: 1–158. ISSN 0015-0746. (Archived at: Archive.org.)
- Mueller, Gregory M. (1997). "The mushroom genus Laccaria in North America". Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2010-12-12.