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
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