Fungalpedia – Note 943, Mucidula

 

Mucidula. Pat.

Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank., Fig 1

ClassificationPhysalacriaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, BasidiomycotaFungi

Mucidula is belonging to Physalacriaceae (Yang et al. 2019, He et al. 2019) and M. mucida is the types species. They are characterised by white to pale brown armillarioid basidiomata with a greasy to viscid pileus surface, annulus on the stalk, and globose basidiospores. There are two species M. brunneomarginata and M. mucida of this genus and M. mucida is separated into three varieties: M. mucida var. asiatica, M. mucida var. mucida, and M. mucida var. venosolamellata. Species identification is based on the distribution differences and pileipellis and lamella features (Petersen & Hughes 2010). 

Type species: Mucidula mucida (Schrad.) Pat., Hyménomyc. Eur. (Paris): 96 (1887).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Mucidula.

 

 

Figure 1 – Mucidula mucida (HNL503504, new geographical record). a–b Fresh basidiomata of Mucidula mucida on-field captured by Phongeun Sysouphanthong. c Basidiospores. d Basidia. e Cheilocystidia. f Pleurocystidia. g Pileipelliis ixotricchoderm. Scale bars: a–b = 20 mm. c–g = 10 μm.

 

References

He MQ, Zhao RL, Hyde KD, Begerow D et al. 2019 – Notes, outline and divergence times of Basidiomycota. Fungal Diversity 99, 105–367.

Petersen RH, Hughes KW. 2010 – The Xerula/Oudemansiella Complex (Agaricales) Introduction. Nova Hedwigia, 9–615.

Yang CL, Xu XL, Wanasinghe DN, Jeewon R et al. 2019 – Neostagonosporella sichuanensis gen. et sp. nov. (Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales) on Phyllostachys heteroclada (Poaceae) from Sichuan Province. China. MycoKeys 46, 119–150.

 

Entry by

Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China

Published online 25 April 2022