Echinoderma

Echinoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its members were for a long time considered to belong to genus Lepiota and the group was then circumscribed by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1981 as a subgenus of Cystolepiota[1] before he raised it to generic status in 1991.[2]

This article is about the fungus. For the phylum including starfish and sea urchins, see Echinoderm.

Echinoderma
Echinoderma asperum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Agaricaceae
Genus:
Echinoderma

(Locq. ex Bon) Bon (1991)
Type species
Echinoderma asperum
(Pers.) Bon (1991)
Synonyms
  • Cystolepiota subgen. Echinoderma Locq. ex Bon (1981)

General

This genus belongs to a group of genera allied to Lepiota with a white spore print, free (or almost free) gills, stipe easily separable from the cap and having a partial veil.[3] Amongst the Agaricaceae it is characterized by the white spore powder, cap skin microscopically an epithelium with rounded cells, and a brownish cap and stipe, with brown scales.[4]

The name comes from the Greek "echinos" (ἐχῖνος) meaning a hedgehog or sea-urchin[5] and "derma" (δέρμα) meaning skin,[6] referring to the spiny cap surface. The noun "derma" is neuter and therefore if the species name is an adjective, it needs to take the neuter ending (example: Echinoderma asperum).

Species
  • Echinoderma asperum (Pers.) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma boertmannii (Knudsen) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma bonii C.E.Hermos. & Jul.Sánchez 1999
  • Echinoderma calcicola (Knudsen) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma carinii (Bres.) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma echinaceum (J.E.Lange) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma efibulis (Knudsen) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma hystrix (F.H.Møller & J.E.Lange) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma jacobi (Vellinga & Knudsen) Gminder 2003
  • Echinoderma perplexum (Knudsen) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma pseudoasperulum (Knudsen) Bon 1991
  • Echinoderma rubellum (Bres.) Migl. 2000

See also

References
  1. Bon M. (1981). "Clé monographique des Lépiotes d'Europe (Agaricaceae, Tribus Lepioteae et Leucocoprineae)". Documents Mycologiques (in French). 11 (43): 1–77.
  2. Bon M. (1991). "Les genres Echinoderma (Locq. ex Bon) st. nov. et Rugosomyces Raithelhuber ss lato". Documents Mycologiques (in French). 21 (82): 61–66.
  3. Courtecuisse, R.; Duhem, B. (2013). Champignons de France et d'Europe (in French). Delachaux et Niestlé. p. 60. ISBN 978-2-603-02038-8. Also available in English.
  4. Knudsen, H.; Vesterholt, J., eds. (2008). Funga Nordica Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Copenhagen: Nordsvamp. p. 519. ISBN 978-87-983961-3-0.
  5. Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. "ἐχῖνος". A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  6. Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. "δέρμα". A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
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