Fungalpedia – Note 3255, Squamanitaceae

 

Squamanitaceae Jülich, Biblthca Mycol. 85: 390 (1982) [1981].

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

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

Liu et al. (2021) emended Squamanitaceae and presented a detailed taxonomic treatment of it to accommodate five genera, viz. Cystoderma, Floccularia, Leucopholiota, Phaeolepiota, and Squamanita. Saar et al. (2022) resurrected Dissoderma for those species, previously included in Squamanita, with small, collybioid or mycenoid basidiomes, not volvate, without cystidia, and with purplish grey tinges on the pileus and often upper part of the stipe.

Type genus: Squamanita Imbach 1946.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Squamanitaceae.

 

References

Liu J-W, Ge Z-W, Horak E, Vizzini A, Halling RE, Pan C-L, Yang Z-L 2021 – Squamanitaceae and three new species of Squamanita parasitic on Amanita basidiomes. IMA fungus 12(1):1–24.

Saar I, Thorn RG, Nagasawa E, Henkel TW, Cooper JA 2022 – A phylogenetic overview of Squamanita, with descriptions of nine new species and four new combinations. Mycologia 114(4):769–797.

 

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 18 September 2026.

 

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