Limacella is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Amanitaceae in order Agaricales.[1][2] Some of the species have been classified as members of genus Lepiota. Limacella was described by mycologist Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909.[3]

Limacella
Limacella glischra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Limacella
Earle (1909)
Type species
Limacella delicata
(Fr.) Earle ex Konrad & Maubl. (1930)

In some older classification schemes, Limacella has alternatively been placed in family Pluteaceae. The species formerly classified in the genus Limacella are now placed in 4 genera; Catatrama, Limacellopsis, Limacella, and Zhuliangomyces.[2][4][5]

Species

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Name Taxon author Year
Limacella alachuana (Murrill) Pegler 1983
Limacella anomologa (Berk. & Broome) Pegler 1986
Limacella arida (Gillet) Konrad & Maubl. 1926
Limacella asperulospora Corner 1994
Limacella bangladeshana M.I. Hosen & T.H. Li 2017
Limacella bentista (Morgan) Murrill 1914
Limacella broadwayi (Murrill) H.V. Sm. 1966
Limacella brunneovenosa C.C. Nascimento & Wartchow 2018
Limacella delicata (Fr.) Earle ex Konrad & Maubl. 1930
Limacella floridana (Murrill) H.V. Sm. 1945
Limacella fulvodisca (Peck) Murrill 1912
Limacella furnacea (Letell.) E.-J. Gilbert 1928
Limacella glischra (Morgan) Murrill 1914
Limacella grisea Singer 1989
Limacella kauffmanii H.V. Sm. 1945
Limacella laeviceps (Speg.) Raithelh. 1980
Limacella magna B. Kumari & R.C. Upadhyay 2013
Limacella megalopoda (Bres.) Maire 1926
Limacella myochroa Pegler 1983
Limacella myxodictyon (Berk. & Broome) Pegler 1986
Limacella oaxacana Singer 1958
Limacella oblita (Peck) Murrill 1914
Limacella ochraceorosea (Béguet & Bon) Neville & Poumarat 2004
Limacella olivaceobrunnea Hongo 1978
Limacella persoonii (Fr.) Konrad & Maubl. 1926
Limacella pitereka Grgur. 1997
Limacella quilonensis Sathe & J.T. Daniel 1981
Limacella rhodopus (Bres.) Pegler 1966
Limacella roseofloccosa Hora 1960
Limacella roseola Murrill 1943
Limacella singaporeana Corner 1994
Limacella solidipes (Peck) H.V. Sm. 1945
Limacella steppicola Zerova 1974
Limacella steppicola Zerova & Wasser 1988
Limacella subfurnacea Contu 1990
Limacella subglischra (S. Imai) S. Ito 1959
Limacella subpessundata (Murrill) Singer 1942
Limacella subtropicana A. Izhar, Niazi, M. Asif, Haqnawaz, H. Bashir & Khalid 2022
Limacella taiwanensis Zhu L. Yang & W.N. Chou 2002
Limacella wheroparaonea G.S. Ridl. 1993

References

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  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. pp. 382–3. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ^ a b Yang ZL, Cai Q, Cui YY (2018). "Phylogeny, diversity and morphological evolution of Amanitaceae". Biosyst. Ecol. Ser. 34: 359–380.
  3. ^ Earle FS. (1909). "The genera of North American gill fungi". Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 5: 373–451 (see p. 447).
  4. ^ Cui YY, Cai Q, Tang LP, Liu JW, Yang ZL (2018). "The family Amanitaceae: molecular phylogeny, higher-rank taxonomy and the species in China". Fungal Diversity. 91: 5–230. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0405-9. S2CID 52048762.
  5. ^ Redhead SA (2019). "Zhuliangomyces". Index Fungorum. 385: 1.