Chrysomycena

Chrysomycena
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Porotheleaceae
Genus:
Vizzini, Picillo, L. Perrone & Dovana
Species:
C. perplexa
Binomial name
Chrysomycena perplexa
Picillo, Vizzini & L. Perrone

Chrysomycena is an agaric fungal genus comprising one wood-decaying species found in Italy, Chrysomycena perplexa.[1] It was first formally named in 2019.

The species has small golden yellow fruiting bodies resembling unrelated agarics in the Hygrophoraceae or Mycenaceae, with slightly slippery caps and a frosted yellowish stipe. The spores are slightly amyloid and the tissues of the fruitbodies have sarcodimitic construction.

References

  1. ^ Vizzini A, Picillo B, Perrone L, Dovana F (2019). "Chrysomycena perplexa gen. et sp. nov. (Agaricales, Porotheleaceae), a new entity from the Lazio region". Rivista Micologica Romana, Bollettino dell'Associazione Micologica Ecologica Romana. 107 (2): 96–107.
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