Musumecia

Musumecia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Musumecia
Vizzini & Contu (2011)
Type species
Musumecia bettlachensis
Vizzini & Contu (2011)

Musumecia is a clitocyboid agaric fungal genus with a soft, pseudosclerotium-like base. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Musumecia bettlachensis, from France. Phylogenetically, Musumecia bettlachensis is sister to Pseudoclitocybe[1] and is tentatively classified in the Tricholomataceae. Although the type species was also named as new, it is likely that it has been previously described considering the long history of studies on mushrooms in France and Europe in general.

Etymology

The name Musumecia was named after Swiss mycologist Enzo Musumeci.

See also

References

  1. Vizzini A, Contu M, Ercole E (2011). "Musumecia gen. nov. in the Tricholomatoid clade (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) related to Pseudoclitocybe". Nordic Journal of Botany. 29 (6): 734–40. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2011.01169.x.
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