Entoloma porphyrophaeum

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Lilac Pinkgill
Entoloma porphyrophaeum, England
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Entolomataceae
Genus: Entoloma
Species:
E. porphyrophaeum
Binomial name
Entoloma porphyrophaeum
(Fr.) P. Karst. (1879)
Synonyms
  • Agaricus porphyrophaeus Fr (1857)
  • Hyporrhodius porphyrophaeus (Fr.) Migula (1912)
  • Rhodophyllus porphyrophaeus (Fr.) J.E. Lange (1921)
  • Leptonia porphyrophaea (Fr.) Largent (1977)
  • Trichopilus porphyrophaeus (Fr.)
    P.D. Orton
    (1991)

Entoloma porphyrophaeum is a

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first

mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1857 as Agaricus porphyrophaeus, the epithet derived from Ancient Greek πορφύρα ("purple") and φαιός ("dusky").[4] Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten transferred it to the genus Entoloma
in 1879.

Description

cheilocystidia are rostrate (with a simple apical projection) to capitate (with a spherical apical projection).[5]

Similar species

Entoloma porphyrophaeum belongs in the "Trichopilus" group of Entoloma species and is similar to the commoner Entoloma jubatum, which is typically smaller and darker with distinctly brown lamellae. Entoloma fuscomarginatum and E, elodes are species of Sphagnum and peat bogs, the former with a brown edge to the lamellae.[5]

Distribution and habitat

The Lilac Pinkgill is rare but widespread in Europe.[1] Like many other European pinkgills, it occurs in old, agriculturally unimproved, short-sward grassland (pastures and lawns).

Conservation

Entoloma porphyrophaeum is typical of waxcap grasslands, a declining habitat due to changing agricultural practices. As a result, the species is of global conservation concern and is listed as "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Jordal J. "Entoloma porphyrophaeum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  2. ^ Holden L. (July 2014). "English names for fungi 2014". British Mycological Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  3. doi:10.12905/0380.sydowia72-2020-0231
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  4. ^ Rea, Carleton (1922). British Basidiomycetaceae: a Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 244.
  5. ^ a b Noordeloos, M.E. (1992). Fungi Europaei 5: Entoloma. Italy: Libreria editrice Giovanna Biella.
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