Mycena subcaerulea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Mycenaceae
Genus: Mycena
Species:
M. subcaerulea
Binomial name
Mycena subcaerulea
(Peck) Sacc. (1887)
Synonyms[1]
  • Agaricus subcaeruleus Peck (1873)

Mycena subcaerulea is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It produces small, thin-fleshed fruitbodies with pale bluish-green caps upon slender stipes. The centers of the caps are darker in colour than the margins, and the cap cuticle can be peeled off. The fungus was first described in 1873 as Agaricus subcaeruleus by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck. His original collections, found growing on the trunks of decaying beech trees, were made in woods of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York.[2] Pier Andrea Saccardo transferred the species to the genus Mycena in 1887.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "GSD Species Synonymy: Mycena subcaerulea (Peck) Sacc". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  2. ↑ Peck CH. (1873). "Descriptions of new species of fungi". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 1: 41–72 (see p. 47).
  3. ↑ Saccardo PA. (1887). "Sylloge Hymenomycetum, Vol. I. Agaricineae" (in Latin). 5: 263. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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