Cantharocybe

Cantharocybe is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae.[1] The genus was described by American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith in 1973.[2] Cantharocybe contains three species: the type C. gruberi, and C. brunneovelutina from Belize, reported as new to science in 2011,[3] and C. virosa, transferred from "Megacollybia", and found in Bangladesh and India.[4] [5]

Cantharocybe
Cantharocybe gruberi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Hygrophoraceae
Genus:	Cantharocybe H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973)
Type species
Cantharocybe gruberi (A.H.Sm.) H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973)
Species
C. brunneovelutina C. gruberi C. virosa

See also

• List of Agaricales genera

References

1. Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC, Cantrell SA, Boertmann D, et al. (2014). "Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 64 (1): 1–99. doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0.
2. Bigelow HE, Smith AH (1973). "Cantharocybe, a new genus of Agaricales". Mycologia. 65 (2): 485–8. doi:10.2307/3758121. JSTOR 3758121.
3. Ovrebo CL, Lodge DJ, Aime MC (2011). "A new Cantharocybe from Belize with notes on the type of Cantharocybe gruberi". Mycologia. 103 (5): 1102–9. doi:10.3852/10-360. PMID 21482626.
4. Kumar TK, Manimohan P (2013). "Molecular phylogeny reveals Megacollybia virosa is a Cantharocybe". Mycotaxon. 124: 231–8. doi:10.5248/124.231.
5. Hosen MI, Li TH, Lodge DJ, Rockfeller A (2014). "The first ITS phylogeny of the genus Cantharocybe (Agaricales, Hygrophoraceae) with a new record of C. virosa from Bangladesh". MycoKeys. 14: 37–50. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.14.9859.