''Cantharocybe'' is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. The genus was described by American mycologists

Howard E. Bigelow Howard Elson Bigelow (June 28, 1923 – November 21, 1987) was an American mycologist, born in 1923 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and died in 1987. He studied at Oberlin College from 1941 to 1943. He left college to fight in the American army. He ...

and Alexander H. Smith in 1973. ''Cantharocybe'' contains three species: the

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'' C. gruberi'', and '' C. brunneovelutina'' from Belize, reported as new to science in 2011, and '' C. virosa'', transferred from "

Megacollybia ''Megacollybia'' is a genus of fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. Previously thought to be monotypic, the genus was split into several species on the basis of genetic data in 2007 . The type species, '' M. platyphylla'', is restricted in dist ...

", and found in Bangladesh and India.

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Agaricales genera Hygrophoraceae Taxa named by Alexander H. Smith {{Hygrophoraceae-stub

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