Mycetinis opacus

Mycetinis opacus is a species of agaric fungus first described in 1849 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis as Marasmius opacus.[2] Andrew Wilson and Dennis Desjardin transferred it to Mycetinis in 2005.[3]

Mycetinis opacus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Omphalotaceae
Genus: Mycetinis
Species:
M. opacus
Binomial name
Mycetinis opacus
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) A.W.Wilson and Desjardin (2005)
Synonyms[1]
  • Marasmius opacus Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1849)
  • Chamaeceras opacus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Kuntze (1898)
  • Marasmiellus opacus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Singer (1951)
  • Gymnopus opacus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.L.Mata & R.H.Petersen (2004)

It is found in North America (and rarely in Japan) growing especially on dead Rhododendron material, but also on debris of oak, pine, and eastern hemlock. The cap reaches only to about 2 cm diameter and it has conspicuous pale mycelial cords. Unlike some other Mycetinis species, it does not smell of garlic.[4]

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Mycetinis opacus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) A.W. Wilson & Desjardin". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-30.
  2. Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA. (1849). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXI-XXII. North and South Carolina Fungi". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 1: 97–104.
  3. Wilson AW, Desjardin DE. (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships in the gymnopoid and marasmioid fungi (Basidiomycetes, euagarics clade)". Mycologia. 97 (3): 667–9. doi:10.1080/15572536.2006.11832797. PMID 16392255. S2CID 218589623.
  4. Petersen RH, Hughes KW (2017). "An investigation on Mycetinis (Euagarics, Basidiomycota)". MycoKeys. 26: 1–138. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.24.12846.


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