Blasiphalia
| Blasiphalia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Hymenochaetales |
| Family: | Repetobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Blasiphalia Redhead (2007) |
| Type species | |
| Blasiphalia pseudogrisella (A.H.Sm.) Redhead (2007) | |
Blasiphalia is a fungal genus in the family Repetobasidiaceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the honey colored omphalinoid agaric, Blasiphalia pseudogrisella, which grows with the liverwort genus Blasia.[1] Phylogenetically related agarics are in the genera Rickenella, Gyroflexus, Loreleia, Cantharellopsis and Contumyces, as well as the stipitate-stereoid genera Muscinupta and Cotylidia and clavarioid genus, Alloclavaria.[2] Blasiphalia is most similar to Rickenella and Contumyces, and was only just recognized as a distinct genus in 2007 based upon molecular analysis. The fungus is unique in parasitizing Blasia by forming clasping appresoria on its host's rhizoids.[3][4] Its basidiospores also germinate on the host's gemmae[5] and clasp them and therefore can be disseminated together with the gemmae.
Etymology
Blasiphalia is a nonsense, nontraditionally formulated name vaguely referring to the liverwort genus Blasia and a fragment of the word 'omphalia' in reference to previous classifications that would place it in Omphalina.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Dentinger, B.T.M. & McLaughlin, D.J. (2006). "Reconstructing the Clavariaceae using nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences and a new genus segregated from Clavaria". Mycologia 98 (5): 746–762. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.5.746. PMID 17256578.
- ↑ Redhead, S.A. (1981). "Parasitism of bryophytes by agarics". Canadadian Journal of Botany 59 (1): 63–67. doi:10.1139/b81-011.
- ↑ Kost, G. (1988). "Interactions between Basidiomycetes and Bryophyta". Endocytobiosis and Cell Research 5: 287–308.
- ↑ Redhead, S.A. (1980). "Gerronema pseudogrisella". Fungi Canadenses 170.