Marasmiaceae

Marasmiaceae
Marasmius rotula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Marasmiaceae Roze ex Kühner (1980)
Type genus
Marasmius Fr. (1835)
Diversity
Over 50 genera, 1500+ species.
Synonyms[1]
Omphalotaceae Bresinsky 1985

The Marasmiaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi which have white spores. They mostly have tough stems and the capability of shrivelling up during a dry period and later recovering. The widely consumed edible fungus Lentinula edodes, the shiitake mushroom, is a member of this family. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contains 54 genera and 1590 species.^[2]

The family Omphalotaceae, described by A. Bresinsky in 1985^[3] as a segregate from the Tricholomataceae, is currently considered synonymous with Marasmiaceae.^[1] Genera formerly included in that family (including Anthracophyllum, Gymnopus, Lentinula, Marasmiellus, Mycetinis, Rhodocollybia, Omphalotus) are now classified in the Marasmiaceae.

Genera

Amyloflagellula Anastrophella Anthracophyllum Aphyllotus Baeospora Calathella Calyptella Campanella Cephaloscypha Chaetocalathus Clitocybula Connopus Crinipellis

Cymatella Cymatellopsis Deigloria Epicnaphus Fissolimbus Gerronema Glabrocyphella Gymnopus Henningsomyces Hispidocalyptella Hydropus Hymenogloea Lactocollybia

Lecanocybe Lentinula Macrocystidia Manuripia Marasmiellus Marasmius Megacollybia Metulocyphella Moniliophthora Mycetinis Neocampanella Neonothopanus Nochascypha

Nothopanus Omphalotus Phaeodepas Pleurocybella Pseudotyphula Rectipilus Rhodocollybia Setulipes Skepperiella Stipitocyphella Stromatocyphella Tetrapyrgos Trogia

See also

• List of Agaricales families

References

1. Kirk et al., 2008, p. 481.
2. Kirk et al., 2008, p. 401.
3. Kämmerer A, Besl H, Bresinsky A. (1985). Omphalotaceae fam. nov. und Paxillaceae, ein chemotaxonomischer Vergleich zwier Pilzfamilien der Boletales. Pl. Syst. Evol. 150:101–17.

• Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.