Clarkeinda is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.[2] According to the Dictionary of the Fungi,[1] 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]
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Genus: | Clarkeinda Kuntze (1891)
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Clarkeinda pedilia | |
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C. caparidensis | |
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Agaricus subgen. Chitonia Fr. (1874) |
Taxonomy
editOtto 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Clements FE (1909). The Genera of Fungi (1st ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota: H.W. Wilson. p. 114.
- ^ a b "Clarkeinda Kuntze 1891". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hosen MI, Ge ZW (2011). "Clarkeinda trachodes (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes), first record from Bangladesh". Mycotaxon. 118: 331–336. doi:10.5248/118.331.
- ^ Yang ZL (1991). "Clarkeinda trachodes, an agaric new to China". Acta Botanica Yunnanica. 13: 279–282.
- ^ Kuntze O. (1891). Revisio generum plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Leipzig, Germany: A. Felix. p. 848.
- ^ Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press. p. 97.