Gigasperma

Gigasperma is an inactive genus of fungi in the order Agaricales with a single species. It was treated either as the only genus in the monotypic family Gigaspermataceae,[2] or part of the wider Cortinariaceae.[3] Gigasperma was circumscribed by Austrian mycologist Egon Horak in 1971.[4]

Gigasperma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Gigaspermataceae

Jülich (1981)
Genus:
Gigasperma

E.Horak (1971)
Type species
Gigasperma clelandii
(Rodway) E.Horak (1971)
Synonyms[1]

Gigaspermaceae Jülich (1981)

Taxonomy

No species remain within this genus since Gigasperma cryptica was reclassified as Thaxterogaster crypticus in 2022.[5]

Synonyms
  • Gigasperma americanum Kropp & L.J. Hutchison, 1996 = Cryptolepiota americana (Kropp & L.J. Hutchison) Kropp & Trappe, 2012 [6]
  • Gigasperma clelandii (Rodway) E. Horak, 1971 = Horakiella clelandii (Rodway) Castellano & Trappe, 1992 [7]

See also

References
  1. "Gigaspermaceae Jülich 1981". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 282. ISBN 9780851998268.
  3. "Cortinariaceae R. Heim ex Pouzar, Česká Mykol. 37: 174 (1983)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  4. Horak E. (1971). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales s.l. (Fungi) of New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 9 (3): 463–93. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1971.10430194.
  5. Liimatainen, Kare; Kim, Jan T.; Pokorny, Lisa; Kirk, Paul M.; Dentinger, Bryn; Niskanen, Tuula (2022-01-01). "Taming the beast: a revised classification of Cortinariaceae based on genomic data". Fungal Diversity. 112 (1): 89–170. doi:10.1007/s13225-022-00499-9. hdl:2299/25409. ISSN 1878-9129.
  6. Mycobank Cryptolepiota americana
  7. Mycobank Horakiella clelandii
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