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Leucocybe

Leucocybe Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio, in Alvarado et al., Mycologia 107(1): 131 (2015)

Etymology: (Gk.) “leuco-“, white; “-cybe”, head (mushroom), that is a white Clitocybe.

Diagnosis: Basidiomata gregarious or caespitose. Small to medium-sized (1–9 cm). Pileus convex or globose and covered with a tomentose white to off-white layer when young, becoming glabrous, whitish cream or buff, center depressed with age. Lamellae adnate or slightly decurrent, white or whitish when young, becoming brownish white or grayish white with age. Pileipellis as a cutis. Basidiospores smooth, elliptic, not cyanophilous, without iodine reactions, white in mass. Hymenial cystidia absent. Clamp connections present.

Index Fungorum number: IF808517

Type species: Leucocybe candicans (Pers.) Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio, in Alvarado et al., Mycologia 107(1): 131 (2015)

 

Species

Leucocybe candicans (Pers.) Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio 2015

Leucocybe connata (Schumach.) Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio 2015

Leucocybe houghtonii (W. Phillips) Halama & Pencakowski 2017

 

Reference:

Alvarado, P; Moreno, G; Vizzini, A; Consiglio, G; Manjón, JL; Setti, L. 2014. Atractosporocybe, Leucocybe and Rhizocybe: three new clitocyboid genera in the Tricholomatoid clade (Agaricales) with notes on Clitocybe and Lepista. Mycologia. 107(1):123-136

 

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