Fungalpedia – Note 3264, Asproinocybaceae

 

Asproinocybaceae T. Bau & G.F. Mou, in Mou & Bau, J. Fungi 7(12, no. 1086): 7 (2021).

Citation when using this data: He MQ et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.

Asproinocybaceae was established by Mou and Bau (2021) for accommodating the genera Asproinocybe and Tricholosporum. The family is sister to Callistosporiaceae and includes species with a tricholomatoid habit, purplish, violaceous, or lilac-vinaceous distinctive coloured basidiomes; colourless, inamyloid, thin-walled, cyanophilous or not, subglobose to subellipsoid, tuberculate to stellate (Asproinocybe), or cruciform to stauriform (Tricholosporum) spores; hymenial cystidia present or absent, colourless or golden brown, or sometimes with pinkish violet content or grey-violet pigment; clamp connections present or absent; laticifers present (Angelini et al. 2014).

Type genus: Asproinocybe R. Heim 1970.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Asproinocybaceae.

 

References

Angelini C, Contu M, Vizzini A 2014 – Tricholosporum caraibicum (Basidiomycota, Tricholomataceae), a new species from the Dominican Republic. Mycosphere 5(3):430–439.

Mou G-F, Bau T 2021 – Asproinocybaceae fam. nov.(Agaricales, Agaricomycetes) for Accommodating the Genera Asproinocybe and Tricholosporum, and Description of Asproinocybe sinensis and Tricholosporum guangxiense sp. nov. Journal of Fungi 7(12):1086.

 

Entry by

Mao-Qiang He, State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China.

 

Published online 25 September 2026.

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