Nolanea

Nolanea
Nolanea holoconiota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Subclass:	Hymenomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Entolomataceae
Genus:	Nolanea (Fries) P. Kumm.
Species
Nolanea cetrata f. minimospora Nolanea edulis Nolanea hertipes Nolanea holoconiota Nolanea icterina Nolanea fructufragrans Nolanea mammosa Nolanea verna

Nolanea is a genus of small gray to brown pink-spored mushrooms which are mostly saprotrophic and grow on the ground. The cap can be conical, convex or umbonate in shape, often with a silky top. The gills have adnexed to adnate attachment (they can also be a little decurrent) and the stalk is fragile and often hollow. The spores are angular and are flesh colored to pink. Nolaneas are well known for being difficult to identify.

Very little is known about the edibility of Nolaneas, and some are poisonous. It has been considered a subgenus of the large genus Entoloma rather than a genus in its own right. This is reinforced by data produced by the molecular study by Moncalvo in 2002, with species of Nolanea, Leptonia and Inocephalus interspersed with various pinkgill species in a broadly monophyletic entolomatoid group.^[1]

References

1. ^ 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

References

• One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

External links

• The Nolanea Genus