Fungalpedia – Note 2559, Mycenaceae

 

Mycenaceae. Overeem.

Citation when using this data: Boonmee S et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

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

Notes: Mycenaceae belongs to the order Agaricales. Members of this family are saprotrophic, distributed worldwide and are found in almost all ecological zones (Cannon and Kirk 2007). Currently, 19 genera and more than 1700 species are included in this family (Kirk et al. 2008; Species Fungorum 2021). We follow the treatment and updated accounts of Mycenaceae in Moncalvo et al. (2002) and Matheny et al. (2006). Based on morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of ITS sequence data, a novel species Cruentomycena uttarakhandina is introduced.

Type genus: Mycena (Pers.) Roussel, Fl. Calvados, Edn 2: 64 [’46’] (1806).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Mycenaceae.

 

References

Cannon PF, Kirk PM 2007 – Fungal families of the world, 7th edn. CABI, Wallingford Cannon PF, Hawksworth DL, Sherwood-Pike MA 1985 – The British Ascomycotina. An Annotated Checklist. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England, p 302.

Kirk PM, Cannon PE, Minter DW, Stalpers JA 2008 – Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th edn. CABI, Wallingford 

Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime MC, Moncalvo J-M, Ge Z-W, Yang Z, Slot JC, Ammirati JF, Baroni TJ, Bougher NL, Hughes KW, Lodge DJ, Kerrigan RW, Seidl MT, Aanen DK, DeNotis M, Danielle GM, Desjardin DE, Kropp BR, Norvell LL, Parker A, Vellinga EC, Vilgalys R, Hibbet DS 2006 – Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia 98:982–995.

Moncalvo JM, Vilgalys R, Redhead SA, Johnson JE, James TY, Aime MC, Hofstetter V, Verduin SJ, Larsson E, Baroni TJ, Thorn RG, Jacobssong S, Clémençon H, Miller OK Jr 2002 – One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Mol Phylogenet Evol 23:357–400.

Species Fungorum 2021 – http://www.speciesfungorum.org/ Spegazzini C 1917 – Revisión de las Laboulbeniales argentinas. An Mus Nac Hist Nat Buenos Aires 29:445–688.

 

Entry by

Saranyaphat Boonmee, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand

 

Published online 6 June 2026

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