Melanoleuca melaleuca

Melanoleuca melaleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Tricholomataceae
Genus:	Melanoleuca
Species:	M. vulgaris
Binomial name
Melanoleuca melaleuca (Persoon) Murrill
Synonyms[1]
1801 Agaricus melaleucus Pers. 1871 Tricholoma melaleucum (Pers.) P.Kumm. 1886 Gyrophila melaleuca (Pers.) Quél. 1887 Melaleuca vulgaris Pat. 1889 Boletopsis melaleuca (Pers.) Fayod 1897 Melanoleuca vulgaris (Pat.) Pat.

Melanoleuca melaleuca is a species of mushroom in the Tricholomataceae family, and the type species of the genus Melanoleuca. First described under the name Agaricus melaleucus by Christian Hendrik Persoon in his 1801 Synopsis Methodica Fungorum,^[2] the species was moved to a number of different genera before the American mycologist William Murrill transferred it to Melanoleuca in 1911.^[3] It is a widely distributed edible species, known from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and Oceania.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Melanoleuca melaleuca (Pers.) Murrill 1911". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=288051. Retrieved 2010-12-09. 
2. ^ Persoon CH. (1801) (in Latin). Synopsis Methodica Fungorum. Gottingen: Apud H. Dieterich. p. 355. http://books.google.ca/books?id=UugVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Synopsis%20methodica%20fungorum&pg=RA2-PA355. 
3. ^ Murrill WA. (1911). "Illustrations of fungi – IX". Mycologia 3 (4): 165–69. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0003/004/0165.htm. 
4. ^ Zhishu B, Zheng G, Taihui L. (1993). The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province (Chinese University Press). New York, New York: Columbia University Press. p. 328. ISBN 962-201-556-5. http://books.google.ca/books?id=0cAered-vqYC&lpg=PA328&dq=Melanoleuca%20melaleuca&pg=PA328. 

External links

• Melanoleuca melaleuca in Index Fungorum.