''Leucocybe'' is a recently defined
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 ...
genus
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in the family
Tricholomataceae
The Tricholomataceae are a large family of fungi within the order Agaricales. Originally a classic "wastebasket taxon", the family included any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. t ...
(in the
broad sense). The species resemble ''
Clitocybe
''Clitocybe'' is a genus of mushrooms characterized by white, off-white, buff, cream, pink, or light-yellow spores, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprotrophic, decomposing forest grou ...
'' and grow in forests or disturbed areas.
Etymology
The name ''Leucocybe'' is derived from
ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
''leuco-'' referring to the color white, and ''-cybe'', a reference to head or cap.
Species
The 3 species in the genus are the following.
[
*'' L. candicans'' (Pers.) Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio (2015) - formerly '']Clitocybe
''Clitocybe'' is a genus of mushrooms characterized by white, off-white, buff, cream, pink, or light-yellow spores, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprotrophic, decomposing forest grou ...
candicans''.
*'' L. connata'' (Schumach.) Vizzini, P. Alvarado, G. Moreno & Consiglio (2015) - formerly ''Lyophyllum
''Lyophyllum'' is a genus of about 40 species of fungi, widespread in north temperate regions.
Species
References
Lyophyllaceae
Agaricales genera
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connatum'' or ''Clitocybe
''Clitocybe'' is a genus of mushrooms characterized by white, off-white, buff, cream, pink, or light-yellow spores, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprotrophic, decomposing forest grou ...
connata''.[
*'' L. houghtonii'' (W. Phillips) Halama & Pencak. (2017)
''Leucocybe candicans'' is the ]type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
.
See also
*List of Agaricales genera
This is a list of fungal genus, genera in the order (biology), order Agaricales. The list follows Kalichman, Kirk & Matheny (2020), with more recent additions and amendments, as noted. The number of species in each family is taken from Catalogue of ...
References
Agaricales genera
Tricholomataceae
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