Leptonia

Taxobox
color = lightblue
name = "Leptonia"
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secure

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image_caption = Entoloma mougeotii - Subgenus Leptonia
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
subclassis = Hymenomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Entolomataceae
genus = "Leptonia"
genus_authority = (Fries) P. Kumm.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Leptonia carnea" "Leptonia gracilipes" "Leptonia incana" "Leptonia nigroviolacea" "Leptonia parva" "Leptonia sericella"

"Leptonia" is a genus of small and medium sized pink-spored mushrooms that contains over 100 species. Leptonias are saprotrophic and most grow on the ground, but some are found on wood. The cap is thin and can be convex, plane, often depressed and usually has small scales. The gills are widely spaced, usually having to attachment (rarely they can be a little ) and the stalk is fragile. The spores are angular and are flesh colored to pink. Some "Leptonias" have distinctive colors such as black, blue, green, yellow, and violet, but even these are difficult to identify.

Very little is known about the edibility of Leptonias, and some are poisonous. Data produced by the molecular study by Moncalvo in 2002, has species of "Nolanea", "Leptonia" and "Inocephalus" interspersed with various pinkgill species in a broadly monophyletic entolomatoid group. [Moncalvo JM, et al. 2002. One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:357-400. Available from: [http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/faculty/moncalvo/117clade.pdf http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/faculty/moncalvo/117clade.pdf] ]

References

* [http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/faculty/moncalvo/117clade.pdf One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution]

External links

* [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/LeptoGenus677.html The Leptonia Genus]
* [http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/leptonia.htm Leptonia incana - Green leptonia]