Clarkeinda

Clarkeinda is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.[1] According to the Dictionary of the Fungi,[2] the widespread genus contains five species.[3] Species in this genus, especially Clarkeinda trachodes, are only distributed in south Asia and southeast Asia.[4][5]

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

Kuntze (1891)
Type species
Clarkeinda pedilia
(Berk. & Broome) Kuntze (1891)
Species

C. caparidensis
C. coprinus
C. pedilia
C. pervolvata
C. trachodes

Synonyms[1]

Agaricus subgen. Chitonia Fr. (1874)
Chitonia (Fr.) P.Karst. (1879)
Chitoniella Henn. (1898)
Chitonis Clem. (1909)[2]

Taxonomy

Otto Kuntze circumscribed the genus in 1891.[6] The first part of the generic name Clarkeinda honors British botanist Charles Baron Clarke, and -inda is derived from the Greek 'Iνδóς, meaning "pertaining to India".[7]

See also

References
  1. "Clarkeinda Kuntze 1891". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
  2. Clements FE (1909). The Genera of Fungi (1st ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota: H.W. Wilson. p. 114.
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. Hosen MI, Ge ZW (2011). "Clarkeinda trachodes (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes), first record from Bangladesh". Mycotaxon. 118: 331–336. doi:10.5248/118.331.
  5. Yang ZL (1991). "Clarkeinda trachodes, an agaric new to China". Acta Botanica Yunnanica. 13: 279–282.
  6. Kuntze O. (1891). Revisio generum plantarum (in Latin). 2. Leipzig, Germany: A. Felix. p. 848.
  7. Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press. p. 97.


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