Gliophorus

Gliophorus
Gliophorus psittacinus, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Gliophorus
Herink (1958)
Type species
Gliophorus psittacinus
(Schaeff.) Herink (1958)

Gliophorus is a genus of agaric fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. Gliophorus species belong to a group known as waxcaps in English, sometimes also waxy caps in North America or waxgills in New Zealand. The genus was described by Czech mycologist Josef Herink in 1958,[1] but is currently synonymized with Hygrocybe by most standard authorities.[2][3][4] It has, however, been adopted in New Zealand which has an unusually large number of native Gliophorus species.[5]

Recent molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, suggests that Gliophorus is monophyletic and forms a natural group distinct from Hygrocybe sensu stricto.[6] It is therefore likely to be adopted more widely in the near future, as noted in the most recent (2010) European guide to waxcaps.[4]

Species are distinguished from most other waxcaps by producing basidiocarps (fruit bodies) with extremely slimy or glutinous caps and stems.[5]

Species

References

  1. Herink J. (1958). "Stavnatkovité houby parhorku "Velká Horka" u Mnichova Hradiste". Sborník Severoceského musea (in Czech). 1: 53–86.
  2. "Gliophorus Herink". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
  3. "Gliophorus Herink 1958". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
  4. 1 2 Boertmann D. (2010). The genus Hygrocybe (2nd ed.). Copenhagen: Danish Mycological Society. p. 200. ISBN 978-87-983581-7-6.
  5. 1 2 Horak E. (1990). "Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Botany. 28: 255–309. doi:10.1080/0028825x.1990.10412313.
  6. Babos M, Halász K, Zagyva T, Zöld-Balogh Á, Szegő D, Bratek Z (2011). "Preliminary notes on dual relevance of ITS sequences and pigments in Hygrocybe taxonomy". Persoonia. 26: 99–107. doi:10.3767/003158511X578349.
  7. 1 2 Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC, Cantrell SA, Boertmann D, et al. (2014). "Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)". Fungal Diversity. 64 (1): 1–99. doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0.
  8. 1 2 Paul M. Kirk (10 September 2013). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum (23): 1. ISSN 2049-2375.
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