The Mycenaceae are a
family
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of
fungi
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in the order
Agaricales
The Agaricales are an order (biology), order of fungi in the division (mycology), division Basidiomycota. As originally conceived, the order contained all the agarics (gilled mushrooms), but subsequent research has shown that not all agarics are ...
. According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (10th edition, 2008), the family contains 10
genera
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and 705 species. This is one of several families that were separated from the
Tricholomataceae as a result of
phylogenetic
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analyses.
Taxa
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in the Mycenaceae are
saprobic, have a
cosmopolitan distribution
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, and are found in almost all ecological zones.
[ The family was circumscribed by Caspar van Overeem in 1926.
The extinct genus '' Protomycena'', described from ]Burdigalian
The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age (geology), age or stage (stratigraphy), stage in the early Miocene. It spans the time between 20.43 ± 0.05 annum, Ma and 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago). Preceded by the Aquitanian (sta ...
age Dominican amber found on the island of Hispaniola
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[ is one of four known agaric genera in the fossil record.][
]
Phylogeny
A large-scale phylogenetic
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analysis study of the Agaricales published by a consortium of mycologists in 2002 adopted the name Mycenaceae for a strongly supported clade
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consisting of ''Dictyopanus'', '' Favolaschia'', '' Mycena'', '' Mycenoporella'', ''Prunulus'', '' Panellus'', ''Poromycena'', and '' Resinomycena''.[ ''Dictyopanus'' has since been wrapped into ''Panellus'', and both ''Poromycena'' and ''Prunulus'' into ''Mycena''.][Kirk ''et al.'' (2008), p. 565.]
See also
* List of Agaricales families
References
Cited text
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Mycenaceae