Leucocoprinus russoceps
| Leucocoprinus russoceps | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Leucocoprinus |
| Species: | L. russoceps
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucocoprinus russoceps Raithelh. (1987)
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| Synonyms | |
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Agaricus russoceps Berk & Broome (1871) | |
Leucocoprinus russoceps | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is campanulate or convex |
 | Hymenium is free |
 | Stipe has a ring |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is unknown |
Leucocoprinus russoceps is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.[1][2]
Taxonomy
It was described in 1871 by the English botanists and mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome who classified it as Agaricus (Lepiota) russoceps.[3]
In 1887 it was reclassified as Lepiota russoceps by the Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo[4] and then as Mastocephalus russoceps in 1891 by the German botanist Otto Kunze,[5] however Kunze's Mastocephalus genus, along with most of 'Revisio generum plantarum' was not widely accepted by the scientific community of the age so it remained a Lepiota.
In 1987 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus russoceps by the mycologist Jörg Raithelhuber.[6]
Description
Leucocoprinus russoceps is a small dapperling mushroom.
Cap: 1.5-2.5cm wide starting campanulate before flattening and expanding to convex. The surface is yellow-brown to ochre with a pulverulent, powdery coating and striations from the edges. Gills: Pale, 'almost free' and close. Stem: 4cm long and 1.5mm thick at the top with a claviform taper to 4mm wide at the base. The surface is paler than the cap sometimes with a slight greenish tint with age whilst the interior is stuffed with white flesh. The stem ring may disappear. Spores: Smooth, ovate to elliptic with a faint germ pore. 7.2-9 x 4.2-4.6µm.[6]
Habitat and distribution
The specimens were found growing on the ground in forests in Brazil.[6]
The specimens studied by Berk and Broome were found on the ground in June 1860 in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).[3]
References
- ^ "Species fungorum - Leucocoprinus russoceps (Berk. & Broome) Raithelh., Metrodiana 15(2): 37 (1987)". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ "Mycobank Database - Leucocoprinus russoceps".
- ^ a b Berkeley, M. J.; Broome, C. E. (1871). "On the Fungi of Ceylon". The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 11. London : the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: 508.
- ^ Saccardo, P. A.; Traverso, G. B.; Trotter, A. (1887). "Agaricineae, Leucosporse, Lepiota". Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. Vol. 5. Patavii: sumptibus auctoris. p. 63.
- ^ Kuntze, Otto (1891). Revisio generum plantarum:vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum ... Vol. 2. Leipzig: A. Felix [etc.] p. 860.
- ^ a b c "Die Gattung Leucocoprinus in Den A B C - Staaten". Metrodiana. 15 (2): 37. 10 August 1987.