''Clitocybula azurea'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
mushroom
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing Sporocarp (fungi), fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or another food source. ''Toadstool'' generally refers to a poisonous mushroom.
The standard for the n ...
in the genus ''
Clitocybula''.
It is native to
Central and
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.
''Clitocybula azurea'' has subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, inequilateral, amyloid spores which measure 4–6.5 × 3–5 μm. The cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia measure 18–30 × 3.5–8 μm and are versiform, cylindrical, clavate or utriform, subcapitate or with an apical papilla. Phylogenetically ''Clitocybula azurea'' is in
Clitocybula sensu stricto, and is a sister species to ''
Clitocybula familia''.
Gallery
File:Ecuador_Clitocybula_azurea_three.jpg, ''Clitocybula azurea'' closeup
File:Clitocybula_azurea_s.l.t.jpg, ''Clitocybula azurea''
Clitocybula azurea.jpg, ''Clitocybula azurea''
References
Marasmiaceae
Fungus species
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