Bolbitiaceae

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Bolbitiaceae
Bolbitius titubans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Singer (1948)
Type genus
Bolbitius
Fr. (1838)
Genera

Agrogaster
Bolbitius
Conocybe
Cyphellopus
Cyttarophyllopsis
Descolea[1]
Galerella
Galeropsis
Gymnoglossum
Panaeolus
Pholiotina
Ptychella
Rhodoarrhenia
Tubariella
Tubariopsis

Tympanella

Wielandomyces

The Bolbitiaceae are a

genera and 287 species in the family.[2] Bolbitiaceae was circumscribed by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1948.[3]

Description

This family is of mushroom-forming species that have a hymenium on gills, brown spores and a hymenoderm pileipellis.

Differences in genera

saprotrophic
, and tend to be found with grass.

Conocybe are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with a dry cap surface. These are small and saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass. These have cheilocystidia which are capitate.

Pholiotina are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with a dry cap surface. These are small and saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass, and have a veil. Some have a membranous veil, mid-stipe, others the veil breaks up and can be found on the cap margin. These are separated from Conocybe in that the cheilocystidia are non-capitate.

ectomycorrhizal and have limoniform spores.[1]

See also

References

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    PMID 23418526
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  3. ^ Singer R. (1948). "New and interesting species of Basidiomycetes. II". Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences. 32: 103–150 (see p. 147).