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Calocybella

Calocybella Vizzini, Consiglio & Setti, in Vizzini, Consiglio, Setti & Ercole, IMA Fungus 6(1): 5 (2015)

Etymology: Calocybella = a small Calocybe, with reference to the habit shared with some species of that genus and the size of the basidiomes.

Synonym: Rugosomyces sect. Rubescentes Bon & Contu, Doc. Mycol. 29 (116): 36 (2000).

 

Diagnosis: The genus is distinguished from Gerhardtia Bon by the context turning red on bruising and violaceous-red in alkaline solutions, the presence of clamp-connections and different ITS and LSU sequences.

 

Index Fungorum number: IF811739

Type species: Calocybella pudica (Bon & Contu) Vizzini, Consiglio & Setti, in Vizzini, Consiglio, Setti & Ercole, IMA Fungus 6(1): 5 (2015)

Species

Calocybella babruka K.N.A. Raj & Manim. 2016

Calocybella juncicola (R. Heim) P.-A. Moreau, Bellanger & Corriol 2017

Calocybella lohitha K.N.A. Raj & Manim. 2016

Calocybella pudica (Bon & Contu) Vizzini, Consiglio & Setti 2015

Calocybella swetha K.N.A. Raj & Manim. 2016

 

Reference:

Vizzini A.; Consiglio G.; Setti L.; Ercole L. 2015. Calocybella, a new genus for Rugosomyces pudicus (Agaricales, Lyophyllaceae) and emendation of the genus Gerhardtia. IMA Fungus 6(1):1–11.

 

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