Biology:Cystolepiota amazonica
| Cystolepiota amazonica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Cystolepiota |
| Species: | C. amazonica
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| Binomial name | |
| Cystolepiota amazonica Singer (1989)
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| Cystolepiota amazonica | |
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 | gills on hymenium |
 | cap is campanulate |
 | hymenium is free or adnexed |
 | stipe is bare |
 | spore print is white |
 | ecology is saprotrophic |
 | edibility: unknown |
Cystolepiota amazonica is a species of mushroom-producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.[1][2]
Taxonomy
It was described in 1989 by the German mycologist Rolf Singer who classified it as Cystolepiota amazonica.[3]
Description
Cystolepiota amazonica is a very small brownish mushroom with white flesh.
Cap: 3mm wide and high and campanulate (bell shaped). The surface is redddish-brown to light chesnut colour. It is not hygrophanous or viscid ad is wrinkled (rugulose) or smooth with subsulcate striations at the margins. Gills: Free or narrowly adnexed, subconfluent. White but drying to pale or dirty brown. Stem: 1.2 cm tall and 0.8mm thick tapering slightly with a thinner apex. The surface is chestnut colour and smooth with white mycelium at the base. No stem ring was observed by Singer. Spores: Globose or subglobose. Dextrinoid, cyanophilic, hyaline, not metachromatic. 2.5-2.8 x 2-2.2μm. Basidia: 11–12.5 x 3.5-4.5 μm. Four spored. Smell: Indistinct.[3]
Habitat and distribution
The specimens studied by Singer were found growing solitary on fallen, rotting leaves of Dicotyledon plants in the tropical forests of Brazil, 30 km North of Manaus.[3]
References
- ↑ "Species fungorum - Cystolepiota amazonica". https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/GSDSpecies.asp?RecordID=124818.
- ↑ "Mycobank Database - Cystolepiota amazonica". https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/name/Cystolepiota%20amazonica.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Singer, Rolf (1989). "New taxa and new combinations of Agaricales : (Diagnoses fungorum novorum Agaricalium IV)". Fieldiana (Chicago, Ill: Field Museum of Natural History) 21: 99. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20359#page/108/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q107611671 entry
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