Echinoderma
Genus of fungi
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Echinoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its members were for a long time considered to belong to genus Lepiota and the group was then circumscribed by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1981 as a subgenus of Cystolepiota[1] before he raised it to generic status in 1991.[2]
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| Echinoderma | |
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| Echinoderma asperum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Echinoderma (Locq. ex Bon) Bon (1991) |
| Type species | |
| Echinoderma asperum (Pers.) Bon (1991) | |
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General info
This genus belongs to a group of genera allied to Lepiota with a white spore print, free (or almost free) gills, stipe easily separable from the cap and having a partial veil.[3] Amongst the Agaricaceae it is characterized by the white spore powder, cap skin microscopically an epithelium with rounded cells, and a brownish cap and stipe, with brown scales.[4]
The name comes from the Greek "echinos" (ἐχῖνος) meaning a hedgehog or sea-urchin[5] and "derma" (δέρμα) meaning skin,[6] referring to the spiny cap surface. The noun "derma" is neuter and therefore if the species name is an adjective, it needs to take the neuter ending (example: Echinoderma asperum).
All of the species in the genus reproduce by means of spores and are unicellular.[7]
Species
- Echinoderma asperum (Pers.) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma boertmannii (Knudsen) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma bonii C.E.Hermos. & Jul.Sánchez 1999
- Echinoderma calcicola (Knudsen) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma carinii (Bres.) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma echinaceum (J.E.Lange) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma efibulis (Knudsen) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma hystrix (F.H.Møller & J.E.Lange) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma jacobi (Vellinga & Knudsen) Gminder 2003
- Echinoderma perplexum (Knudsen) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma pseudoasperulum (Knudsen) Bon 1991
- Echinoderma rubellum (Bres.) Migl. 2000
See also
- List of Agaricaceae genera
- List of Agaricales genera
- A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries: (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms) (1901), British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology et al.