Nivatogastrium is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Strophariaceae.[1] The genus has contained four species found in North America and New Zealand, but the type species, Nivatogastrium nubigenum, is now considered to be a gasteroid species of Pholiota,[2] and was transferred to that genus in 2014.[3]

Nivatogastrium
Nivatogastrium nubigenum
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Nivatogastrium

Singer & A.H.Sm. (1959)
Type species
Nivatogastrium nubigenum
Singer & A.H.Sm. (1959)
Species

N. lignicola
N. sulcatum

Taxonomy edit

The genus was circumscribed by American mycologists Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith in 1959, who set N. nubigenum (then known as Secotium nubigenum Harkness) as the type and only species.[4] In 1971, Egon Horak described the species N. baylisianum, N. lignicola, and N. sulcatum from New Zealand.[5] N. baylisianum was moved to the genus Deconica in 2014.[6]

The generic name is derived from two words, nivatus and gastrion; nivatus refers to the type locality, Sierra Nevada, and to the fact that the mature fruit bodies fade in color to white.[4]

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References edit

  1. ^ Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime MC, Moncalvo JM, Ge ZW, Slot JC, Ammirati JF, Baroni TJ, Bougher NL, Hughes KW, Lodge DJ, Kerrigan RW, Seidl MT, Aanen DK, DeNitis M, Daniele GM, Desjardin DE, Kropp BR, Norvell LL, Parker A, Vellinga EC, Vilgalys R, Hibbett DS (2006). "Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview" (PDF). Mycologia. 98 (6): 982–995. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.982. PMID 17486974. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03.
  2. ^ Siegel N, Nguyen NH, Vellinga EC (2015). "Pholiota olivaceophylla, a forgotten name for a common snowbank fungus, and notes on Pholiota nubigena". Mycotaxon. 130 (2): 517–532. doi:10.5248/130.517.
  3. ^ Redhead SA (2014). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum (148): 1. ISSN 2049-2375.
  4. ^ a b Smith AH, Singer R (1959). "Studies on secotiaceous fungi. V. Nivatogastrium gen. nov". Brittonia. 11 (4): 224–228. Bibcode:1959Britt..11..224S. doi:10.2307/2805007. JSTOR 2805007. S2CID 20567054.
  5. ^ Horak E. (1971). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales s.l. (Fungi) of New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 9 (3): 463–493. Bibcode:1971NZJB....9..463H. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1971.10430194.
  6. ^ Deconica baylisiana (E. Horak) J.A. Cooper in Index Fungorum