Phloeomana
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| Phloeomana | |
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| Phloeomana speirea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Porotheleaceae |
| Genus: | Phloeomana Redhead (2013) |
| Type species | |
| Phloeomana speirea (Fr.) Redhead (2013) | |
| Species | |
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Phloeomana alba | |
Phloeomana is a bark-inhabiting agaric fungal genus that produces fuscous-colored to whitish mycenoid to omphalinoid fruit bodies in temperate forests. In addition to the type species Phloeomana speirea,[1] 4 other species, P. alba,[2] P. clavata[3][4] (= M. thujina, M. phaeophylla), P. hiemalis[2][5][6] and P. minutula (formerly Mycena olida),[2] have been placed in the genus.[7][8][9] The genus is characterized by nonamyloid smooth, hyaline (translucent) basidiospores and tissues, poorly to moderately differentiated cheilocystidia, diverticulate pileipellis hyphae and general smooth stipe hyphae with scattered caulocystidia.[1] It is one of several mushroom genera formerly classified most recently in Mycena, Omphalina, Hydropus, or Marasmiellus. Phylogenetically, Phloeomana is distant from the Mycenaceae and is closest to a clade or group that includes other former members of Mycena now in Atheniella and Hemimycena clearly excluded from the Mycenaceae and tentatively classified in the Porotheleaceae.