Naiadolina is an agaric fungal genus that produces striking, yellowish fruit bodies on sedges (Scirpus and Dulichium) in wetlands in eastern Canada. The lamellae are merulioid, forked and anastomosing.[2] The type species was previously classified as a Marasmius in the Marasmiaceae, but phylogenetically, Naiadolina flavomerulina is in the Physalacriaceae[2] sister to the genus Cryptomarasmius.[3][4]

Naiadolina
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Naiadolina

Redhead, H.Labbé & Ginns (2013)
Type species
Naiadolina flavomerulina
(Redhead) Redhead, H.Labbé & Ginns (2013)
Synonyms

Marasmius flavomerulinus Redhead (1981)[1]

Etymology edit

The name Naiadolina is an allusion to the naiads or water nymphs in reference to the wetland habitat.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Redhead SA (1981). "Agaricales on wetland Monocotyledoneae in Canada". Canadian Journal of Botany. 59 (5): 574–89. doi:10.1139/b81-083.
  2. ^ a b c Redhead SA (2013). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum. 15: 1–2.
  3. ^ Hao YJ, Qin J, Yang ZL (2014). "Cibaomyces, a new genus of Physalacriaceae from East Asia". Phytotaxa. 162 (4): 198–210. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.433.1576. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.162.4.2.
  4. ^ Moreau, P.-A.; Vila, J.; Aime, M.C.; Antonín, V.; Horak, E.; Pérez-Butrón, J.L.; Richard, F.; Urban, A.; Welti, S.; Vizzini, A. (2015). "Cibaomyces and Cyptotrama, two new genera for Europe, and an emendation of Rhizomarasmius (Basidiomycota, Physalacriaceae)". Mycol. Progress. 14 (2). doi:10.1007/s11557-015-1024-4. hdl:2318/153555. S2CID 14276031.

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