Morganella Zeller 1948

Details

Name scientific

Morganella Zeller, Mycologia 40 650 (1948)

Preferred name

Lycoperdon subgen. Morganella (Zeller) Jeppson & E. Larss. 2008

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Nomenclature

Authors

Zeller

Original authors

Zeller

Publication place

Zeller, S.M. 1948: Notes on certain Gasteromycetes, including two new orders. Mycologia 40(6): 639-668.

Year published

1948

Publication page

650

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Morganella Zeller 1948

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Morganella

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Lycoperdaceae

Genus

Morganella

Subordinates

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Morganella Zeller 1948

Notes

Small puffballs found on decaying wood, the sterile base is absent or if present, it is marshmallow-like in consistency rather than cellular.

There are 2 species reported from New Zealand.

Notes

Fruiting bodies with a sterile, broad, stalk-like base, flesh white when young, powdery and brown when mature, opening through a well-defined pore. On wood.

Two species reported for New Zealand.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Morganella Zeller 1948

Morganella Zeller (1948)

Anon.

Morganella Zeller 1948

Morganella Zeller (1948)

Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; David, J.C.; Stalpers, J.A. (2001)

Lycoperdaceae Chevall. 1826

Morganella Zeller 1948

Morganella Zeller (1948)

Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008)

Agaricaceae Chevall. 1826

Morganella Zeller 1948

Morganella Zeller

Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008-)

Agaricaceae Chevall. 1826

Morganella Zeller 1948

Morganella Zeller (1948)

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Morganella Zeller 1948

Morganella Zeller (1948)

Zeller, S.M. (1948)

Global name resources

Index Fungorum - Morganella

MycoBank - Morganella Zeller

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Morganella Zeller 1948

New Zealand

Auckland

Morganella Zeller 1948

New Zealand

Wellington

Notes

Note type

taxonomic status

Note text

=Lycoperdon

Note reference

Larsson, E.; Jeppson, M. 2008: Phylogenetic relationship among species and genera of Lycoperdaceaea based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa. Mycological Research 112: 4-22.

Metadata

Record id

1cb1c915-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date added

1 January 2001

Date last updated

9 November 2022

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