Biology:Epicnaphus

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Epicnaphus
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Epicnaphus

Singer (1960)
Type species
Epicnaphus phalaropus
Singer (1960)
Species

E. longispora
E. phalaropus

Epicnaphus is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Marasmiaceae. The genus, circumscribed by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1960,[1] contains two species found in South America.[2] Fruitbodies of Epicnaphus species are similar in appearance to those in Marasmius section Sicci, but have a smooth hymenium and broom cells of the Rotalis-type. Singer initially included only the type species, E. phalaropus, which was originally collected from fallen branches in a Bolivian rainforest.[1] The Argentinian species E. longispora was added to the genus by Jörg Raithelhuber in 1973.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Singer, R. (1960). "Monographs of South American Basidiomycetes, specially those of the east slope of the Andes and Brazil. 3. Reduced marasmioid genera in South America". Sydowia 14: 258–80. 
  2. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 


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