Chamaeota

Chamaeota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Pluteaceae
Genus:	Chamaeota (W.G. Sm.) Earle
Genera
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Chamaeota is a genus in the Pluteaceae family of small to medium sized mushrooms. They have a central stem, free gills, smooth pink spores, and a partial veil that usually forms an annulus (ring) on the stalk. Chamaeota can be distinguished from Volvariella by its lack of a volva and from Entolomataceae by its free gills and smooth spores.

Members of Chamaeota are extremely rare. Most species are tropical but at least two species exist in the United States.

The type species is Chamaeota xanthogramma (Ces.) Earle [as 'xanthogrammus'] (1909).

Notable species

• Chamaeota broadwayi Murrill (1911)
• Chamaeota dextrinoidespora Z.S. Bi (1988)
• Chamaeota fenzlii (Schulzer) Singer (1979)
• Chamaeota insignis (Cooke & Massee) Pegler (1965)
• Chamaeota longipes Wichanský (1967)
• Chamaeota sinica J.Z. Ying (1995)
• Chamaeota sphaerospora (eq C. mammillata)
• Chamaeota subolivascens Courtec. (1991)
• Chamaeota tropica Pegler (1983)
• Chamaeota xanthogramma (Ces.) Earle (1909)

External links

• Photographs of Chamaeota sphaerospora
• Annulate Pluteus species: a study of the genus Chamaeota in the United States.
• TAXON info for Chamaeota