Claudopus Gillet 1876

Details

Name scientific

Claudopus Gillet 1876

Preferred name

Entoloma subgen. Claudopus (Gill,) Noordel. 1992

Nomenclature

Authors

Gillet

Original authors

Gillet

Publication place

1876: Les Hyménomycètes. Ch. Thomas.

Year published

1876

Publication page

426

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Claudopus Gillet 1876

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Claudopus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Entolomataceae

Genus

Claudopus

Subordinates

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Claudopus Gillet 1876

Notes

Entoloma-like mushrooms (small, delicate, saprobic, characterised by pink, angular spores) with eccentric, lateral, or no stipe. The single New Zealand species is known also from the Northern Hemisphere.

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Claudopus Gillet 1876

Description

Pileus excentric, lateral, or resupinate ; gills more or less decurrent ; stem very short or absent; spores salmon-colour.

The species are minute, distinguished by the excentric or resupinate pileus, rudimentary or obsolete stem, and salmon-coloured spores. Agreeing in structure with the simplest forms of Pleurotus, which differ in the white spores. Growing on dead wood, herbaceous stems, &c.