Rhodocybe

Taxobox
color = lightblue
name = "Rhodocybe"
status =

secure

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image_caption = "Rhodocybe gemina"
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
subclassis = Hymenomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Entolomataceae
genus = "Rhodocybe"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Rhodocybe gemina" "Rhodocybe mellea" "Rhodocybe paurii" "Rhodocybe pulchrisperma"

"Rhodocybe" is a small genus of small and medium sized brownish-pink spored mushrooms. "Rhodocybes" are saprotrophic and most grow on the ground, but some are found on wood. Most are drab in appearance, though some have vivid colors. The cap shape can be convex, plane, or depressed. The gills usually have to attachment, rarely and the stems of the mushrooms in this genus are highly variable, always lacking a veil or vulva. The spores are flesh colored to salmon to brownish pink. Microscopically the spores are angular when viewed on end; when viewed from the side the spores are bumpy.

Very little is known about the edibility of "Rhodocybes".

"Rhodocybes" can be confused with "Entoloma" or "Clitopilus", and can be distinguished by examining microscopic characteristics.

About 20 species of Rhodocybe have been documented in Europe.

Rhodocybe is divided into four subsections - "Rhodocybe", "Rhodophana", "Decurrentes", and "Rufobrunneua".

References

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

External links

* [http://entoloma.nl/html/rhodocybeeng.html The genus Rhodocybe]
* [http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/rodocybe.html Key to Rhodocybe in South America]