Rhodophana

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Rhodophana
Rhodophana cf. nitellina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Entolomataceae
Genus:
Rhodophana

Kühner (1971)
Type species
Rhodophana nitellina
(Fr.) Papetti (2014)

Rhodophana is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Entolomataceae. It originally described as a genus in 1947 by Robert Kühner, but the description was invalid until it was re-published in 1971, though as a subgenus of Rhodocybe. It did not find favour as a genus until Rhodocybe was found to be polyphyletic and Kluting et al. resurrected the name in 2014 as part of a DNA-based reclassification of the family.[1][2]

Rhodophana is distinguished from other genera of the Entolomataceae because there are

clamp connections and based on the structure of the cap skin. This genus has a thin outer cutis in a single layer merging into the main trama whilst other family members have a two-layer cap skin. The type species is Rhodophana nitellina.[1]

The name is derived from "rhodon" (ῥόδον) = "rose" (referring to the pink colour of the spores and gills) and "phanos" (φανός) = bright or conspicuous (referring to the cap colour).[3][4]

Rhodophana spores 1000x
Rhodophana fluorescing in 365 nanometer UV light


See also

References

  1. ^
    PMID 20198166. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2011-07-27.
  2. S2CID 40696041
    .
  3. ^ "Rhodophana nitellina (Fr.) Papetti 2015" (in Italian). Archivio Micologico (A.M.I.N.T.). 28 April 2016. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  4. ^ Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. "φανόs1". A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford). Retrieved 2018-04-16.


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