Mycocalia

Mycocalia is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Their fruit bodies resemble tiny egg-filled birds' nests. Species are usually found growing on herbaceous stems and other plant debris. Thus genus was circumscribed in 1961 by mycologist J.T. Palmer with Mycocalia denudata as the type species.[1]

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

J.T.Palmer (1961)
Type species
Mycocalia denudata
(Fr. & Nordholm) J.T.Palmer (1961)
Species

M. arundinacea
M. denudata
M. duriaeana
M. minutissima
M. reticulata
M. sphagneti

Description

Species in this genus have small barrel- to lens-shaped fruit bodies, usually 0.5–2 mm broad, that grow by themselves in small groups. The peridium consists of loosely interwoven clamped hyphae. The peridioles, of which there may be one to several, are disc-shaped, yellow- to red-brown, and sit in a gelatinous matrix when young and fresh. Spores are elliptical in shape, smooth, hyaline and have dimensions of 5–9.5 by 3.5–7 µm.[2]

See also

References
  1. Palmer JT. (1961). "Observations on Gasteromycetes. IX. The conservation of Nidularia Fr. and the separation of Mycocalia JT Palmer, gen. nov". Taxon. 10 (2): 54–60. doi:10.2307/1217453. JSTOR 1217453.
  2. Miller HR, Miller OK (1988). Gasteromycetes: Morphological and Developmental Features, with Keys to the Orders, Families, and Genera. Eureka, California: Mad River Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-916422-74-5.



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