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Protostropharia
Sign in to saveProtostropharia, is a coprophilous agaric fungal genus that produces glutinous, mostly yellowish to yellow brown fruit bodies. Characteristically most form chrysocystidia and rather large, smooth, violaceous basidiospores each with a prominent germ pore (as Stropharia subg. Stercophila). It is differentiated from Stropharia by production of astrocystidia on its mycelium rather than by acanthocytes that Stropharia produces. Phylogenetically, Protostropharia is distinct from Stropharia, Pholiota, and Leratiomyces. Two species, P. luteonitens and P. tuberosa, form pseudosclerotia within the dung
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyStrophariaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Strophariaceae
- Collections
- UCSC, DUKE, UC, O, F
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Norway
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Strophariaceae
- Image
- Stropharia semiglobata 38287.jpg
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- taxon name
- Protostropharia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Protostropharia semiglobata
- Commons category
- Protostropharia
- taxon author citation
- Redhead, Moncalvo & Vilgalys
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- References
Protostropharia, is a coprophilous agaric fungal genus that produces glutinous, mostly yellowish to yellow brown fruit bodies. Characteristically most form chrysocystidia and rather large, smooth, violaceous basidiospores each with a prominent germ pore (as Stropharia subg. Stercophila). It is differentiated from Stropharia by production of astrocystidia on its mycelium rather than by acanthocytes that Stropharia produces. Phylogenetically, Protostropharia is distinct from Stropharia, Pholiota, and Leratiomyces. Two species, P. luteonitens and P. tuberosa, form pseudosclerotia within the dung substrate.
==Etymology== The name Protostropharia refers to the less anatomically complex astrocystidia (Greek ) as compared to the acanthocytes in Stropharia.
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