Musumecia

Musumecia is a clitocyboid agaric fungal genus with a soft, pseudosclerotium-like base. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Musumecia bettlachensis, from France. Phylogenetically, Musumecia bettlachensis is sister to Pseudoclitocybe[1] and is tentatively classified in the Tricholomataceae. Although the type species was also named as new, it is likely that it has been previously described considering the long history of studies on mushrooms in France and Europe in general.

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Vizzini & Contu (2011)
Type species
Musumecia bettlachensis
Vizzini & Contu (2011)

Etymology

The name Musumecia was named after Italian mycologist Enzo Musumeci.[2][3]

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References

  1. Vizzini A, Contu M, Ercole E (2011). "Musumecia gen. nov. in the Tricholomatoid clade (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) related to Pseudoclitocybe" (PDF). Nordic Journal of Botany. 29 (6): 734–40. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2011.01169.x. hdl:2318/88592.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. "Musumeci, Enzo | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
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