Nolanea
| Nolanea | |
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| Nolanea holoconiota | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Subclass: | Hymenomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Entolomataceae |
| Genus: | Nolanea (Fries) P. Kumm. |
| Species | |
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Nolanea cetrata f. minimospora | |
Nolanea has been defined as a genus of small gray to brown pink-spored mushrooms which are mostly saprotrophic and grow on the ground. The cap can be conical, convex or umbonate in shape, often with a silky top. The gills have adnexed to adnate attachment (they can also be a little decurrent) and the stalk is fragile and often hollow. The spores are angular and are flesh colored to pink. Nolaneas are well known for being difficult to identify.
It is usually considered a subgenus of the large genus Entoloma rather than a genus in its own right.[1][2] This is reinforced by data produced by the molecular study by Moncalvo in 2002, with species of Nolanea, Leptonia and Inocephalus interspersed with various pinkgill species in a broadly monophyletic entolomatoid group.[3]
Very little is known about the edibility of Nolaneas, and some are poisonous.
References
- ↑ Kuo, Michael (January 2013). "Entolomatoid mushrooms. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site". MushroomExpert.Com. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
- ↑ "Index Fungorum". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
- ↑ Moncalvo JM, et al. 2002. One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:357-400. Available from: http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/faculty/moncalvo/117clade.pdf
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