Rhodophana
Rhodophana cf. nitellina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Entolomataceae
Genus:
Rhodophana

Kühner (1971)
Type species
Rhodophana nitellina
(Fr.) Papetti (2014)

Rhodophana is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Entolomataceae. It originally described as a genus in 1947 by Robert Kühner, but the description was invalid until it was re-published in 1971, though as a subgenus of Rhodocybe. It did not find favour as a genus until Rhodocybe was found to be polyphyletic and Kluting et al. resurrected the name in 2014 as part of a DNA-based reclassification of the family.[1][2]

Rhodophana is distinguished from other genera of the Entolomataceae because there are clamp connections and based on the structure of the cap skin. This genus has a thin outer cutis in a single layer merging into the main trama whilst other family members have a two-layer cap skin. The type species is Rhodophana nitellina.[1]

The name is derived from "rhodon" (ῥόδον) = "rose" (referring to the pink colour of the spores and gills) and "phanos" (φανός) = bright or conspicuous (referring to the cap colour).[3][4]

Rhodophana spores 1000x
Rhodophana fluorescing in 365 nanometer UV light


See also

References

  1. 1 2 D. Co-David; D. Langeveld; M.E. Noordeloos (Nov 2009). "Molecular phylogeny and spore evolution of Entolomataceae" (PDF). Persoonia. Leiden & Utrecht: National Herbarium of The Netherlands & the CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre. 23 (2): 147–176. doi:10.3767/003158509x480944. PMC 2802732. PMID 20198166. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27.
  2. ↑ Kluting KL, Baroni TJ, Bergemann SE (2014). "Toward a stable classification of genera within the Entolomataceae: a phylogenetic re-evaluation of the Rhodocybe-Clitopilus clade". Mycologia. 106 (6): 1127–42. doi:10.3852/13-270. PMID 24987124. S2CID 40696041.
  3. ↑ "Rhodophana nitellina (Fr.) Papetti 2015" (in Italian). Archivio Micologico (A.M.I.N.T.). Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  4. ↑ Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. "φανόs1". A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford). Retrieved 2018-04-16.


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