Protostropharia

Protostropharia
	Protostropharia semiglobata growing on llama dung in South America
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Strophariaceae
Genus:	Protostropharia; Redhead, Moncalvo, & Vilgalys (2013)
Type species
	Protostropharia semiglobata; (Batsch) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys (2013)
Species
	Protostropharia alcis; Protostropharia arctica; Protostropharia dorsipora; Protostropharia islandica; Protostropharia luteonitens; Protostropharia semiglobata; Protostropharia tuberosa

Protostropharia, is a coprophilous agaric fungal genus that produces glutinous, mostly yellowish to yellow brown fruit bodies. Characteristically most form chrysocystidia and rather large, smooth, violaceous basidiospores each with a prominent germ pore (as Stropharia subg. Stercophila^[1]^[2]). It is differentiated from Stropharia by production of astrocystidia on its mycelium rather than by acanthocytes that Stropharia produces.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Phylogenetically, Protostropharia is distinct from Stropharia, Pholiota, and Leratiomyces.^[7]^[8] Two species, P. luteonitens and P. tuberosa, form pseudosclerotia in the dung substrates.^[9]^[10]

Etymology

The name Protostropharia refers to the less anatomically complex astrocystidia (Greek proto-) as compared to the acanthocytes in Stropharia.

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