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Atheniella

Etymology: Purposely spelled to achieve phonetic harmony and uniqueness with an allegorical allusion to mythical Athena (beauty, spear & shield) and her ancient Mycenaean origins

Basidiomata small, mycenoid. Pileus conical to campanulate, brightly colored, red, orange, yellow, or nearly white. Lamellae ascending, adnate, with decurrent tooth, reddish, pinkish, to creamy or white. Stipe hollow, fragile, pruinose, white, pink, orange, or yellowish, base with coarse fibrils. Basidiospores pip-shaped, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline, inamyloid, white in prints. Cheilocystidia mostly fusiform, thin-walled. Pleurocystidia similar. Pileipellis hyphae covered with diverticulae with small simple to slightly branched excrescences. Stipitipellis hyphae generally smooth but with cystidioid end cells. Clamps present or absent. All tissues, nonreactive in iodine. Saprophytic on plant debris (leaves, needles, twigs).

Index Fungorum number: IF550101

Type species: Atheniella adonis (Bull.) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys, Desjardin & B.A. Perry, Index Fungorum 14: 1 (2012)

 

Species

Atheniella adonis (Bull.) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys, Desjardin & B.A. Perry 2012

Atheniella amabillissima (Peck) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys 2012

Atheniella aurantiidisca (Murrill) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys, Desjardin & B.A. Perry 2012

Atheniella delectabilis (Peck) Lüderitz & H. Lehmann 2018

Atheniella flavoalba (Fr.) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys, Desjardin & B.A. Perry 2012

Atheniella leptophylla (Peck) Gminder & Böhning 2016

Atheniella ulmariae H. Lehmann & Lüderitz 2019

 

Reference:

Redhead, SA. 2012. Nomenclatural novelties. Index Fungorum 14: 1

 

About Basidiomycota

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Supported by 

Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI)

project entitled:

"Macrofungi diversity research from the Lancang-Mekong Watershed and surrounding areas"

(Grant No. DBG6280009)

Contact

  • Email: basidio.org@yahoo.com
  • Addresses:
    Mushroom Research Foundation, 292 Moo 18, Bandu District,
    Muang Chiangrai 57100, Thailand
  • The State Key Lab of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.3 1st Beichen West Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P.R. China


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