Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina
Classis: Agaricomycetes
Subclassis: Agaricomycetidae
Ordo: Agaricales
Subordo: Agaricineae
Familia: Nidulariaceae
Genus: Mycocalia
Name
Mycocalia
Mycocalia is a genus of fungi in the family Nidulariaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are minute (typically under 5 mm in diameter) and irregularly spherical. Each produces one or more peridioles which contain the spores and are released from the disintegrating fruit bodies at maturity. Species are usually found growing on herbaceous stems and other plant debris. The genus was originally described in 1961 by British mycologist J.T. Palmer[1] and has a north temperate distribution.[2]
Description
Species have small barrel- to lens-shaped fruit bodies, 0.5–5 mm broad, that grow singly or 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, smooth, and hyaline.[3]
See also
List of Agaricales genera
References
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.
Kraisitudomsook N, Choeyklin R, Boonpratuang T, Pobkwamsuk M, Anaphon S, Smith ME (2022). "Hidden in the tropics: Retiperidiolia gen. nov., a new genus of bird's nest fungi (Nidulariaceae), and a systematic study of the genus Mycocalia". Mycol Progress. 21 (6). Bibcode:2022MycPr..21...56K. doi:10.1007/s11557-022-01807-y. S2CID 248897579.
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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