Chlorophyllum

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina
Classis: Agaricomycetes
Subclassis: Agaricomycetidae
Ordo: Agaricales
Subordo: Agaricineae

Familia: Agaricaceae
Genus: Chlorophyllum
Sectiones: C. sect. Chlorophyllum – C. sect. Ellipsoidospororum – C. sect. Endoptychorum – C. sect. Parvispororum – C. sect. Rhacodium – C. sect. Sphaerospororum

Species (incertae sedis): C. abruptibulbum – C. bharatense – C. madagascariense – C. morganii – C. nothorachodes – C. shimogaense
Name

Chlorophyllum Massee, 1898
Synonyms

Endoptychum Czern., Bull. Soc. Imp. nat. Moscou 18(no. 3): 146 (1845)

References
Primary references

Massee, G.E. 1898. Fungi exotici, I. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Informations of the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. 1898:113-136

Additional references

Ge, Z.W., Jacobs, A., Vellinga, E.C., Sysouphanthong, P., van der Walt, R., Lavorato, C., An, Y.F. and Yang, Z.L., 2018. A multi-gene phylogeny of Chlorophyllum (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota): new species, new combination and infrageneric classification. MycoKeys, (32), p.65. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.32.23831

Links

Index Fungorum: IF 17291
MycoBank: MB 17291

Vernacular names
čeština: bedla
Deutsch: Grünsporschirmlinge
русский: Хлорофиллум

Chlorophyllum is a genus of large agarics similar in appearance to the true parasol mushroom. Chlorophyllum was originally coined in 1898, a time when spore color was the deciding factor for differentiating genera. It was termed in order to describe the poisonous green-spored C. molybdites which shared many characteristics of the mushrooms within the genus Lepiota but lacked the all important white spores. The name derives from Greek Chloro meaning green and phyllo meaning leaf (or gill in this case). It remained as a monotypic genus until recently when modern DNA analyses concluded that many of the mushrooms contained in the genus Macrolepiota actually had more in common genetically with the Chlorophyllum molybdites than with the other members of the Macrolepiota.[2] The genus has a widespread distribution, with many species found in tropical regions. The best known members are the edible shaggy parasol, a name applied to three very similar species Chlorophyllum rhacodes, C. olivieri and C. brunneum, and the poisonous C. molybdites, which is widespread in subtropical regions around the world.
List of species

As of July 2019, the nomenclatural database Index Fungorum lists 28 species in the genus.[3]

C. abruptibulbum
C. africanum
C. agaricoides
C. alborubescens
C. arizonicum
C. bharatense
C. brunneum
C. demangei
C. globosum
C. hortense
C. humei
C. levantinum
C. lusitanicum
C. madagascariense
C. mammillatum
C. molybdites
C. morganii
C. neomastoideum
C. nothorachodes
C. olivieri
C. paleotropicum
C. pseudoglobosum
C. rhacodes
C. shimogaense
C. sphaerosporum
C. subfulvidiscum
C. subrhacodes
C. venenatum