Blasiphalia

Taxobox | name = Blasiphalia
regnum = Fungi
subregnum = Dikarya
phylum = Basidiomycota
subphylum = Agaricomycotina
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Hymenochaetales
familia = Repetobasidiaceae
genus = "Blasiphalia"
subdivision_ranks = speciesA monotypic genus with a honey colored omphalinoid agaric [http://www.arktiskebilleder.dk/siulleq/billede/gr52169.html] in the Hymenochaetales that grows with the liverwort genus "Blasia" [cite journal | author=Larsson, K.-H. "et al." |year=2006 [2007] | title=Hymenochaetales: a molecular phylogeny for the hymenochaetoid clade| journal=Mycologia | volume=98 | issue=6 | pages=926–936 | doi=10.3852/mycologia.98.6.926] Phylogenetically related agarics are in the genera "Rickenella", "Gyroflexus", "Loreleia", "Cantharellopsis" and "Contumyces", as well as the stipitate-stereoid genera "Cyphellostereum" and "Cotylidia" and clavaroid genus, "Alloclavaria" [cite journal | author=Dentinger, B.T.M. & McLaughlin, D.J.' |year=2006| title=Reconstructing the Clavariaceae using nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences and a new genus segregated from "Clavaria"| journal=Mycologia | volume=98 | issue=5 | pages=746–762| doi=10.3852/mycologia.98.5.746] . "Blasiphalia" is most similar to "Rickenella" and "Contumyces", and was only just recognized as a distinct genus in 2007 based upon molecular analysis. The fungus is unique in parasitizing "Blasia" [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P5/P53385.php] by forming clasping appresoria on its host's rhizoids [cite journal | author=Redhead, S.A.|year=1981| title=Parasitism of bryophytes by agarics| journal=Canad. Jour. Bot.| volume=59| pages=63–67] [cite journal | author=Kost, G.|year=1988| title=Interactions between Basidiomycetes and Bryophyta|journal=Endocytobiosis Cell Res| volume=5| pages=287–308] . Its basidiospores also germinate on the host's gemmae and [cite journal | author=Redhead, S.A. |year=1980| title=Gerronema pseudogrisella| journal=Fungi Canadenses| volume=170 [http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/mycoheritage/fungi-can/fungi-can_pdf/170.pdf] ] clasp them and therefore can be disseminated together with the gemmae.

Etymology

"Blasiphalia" is a nonsense, nontraditionally formulated name vaguely referring to the liverwort genus "Blasia" and a fragment of the word 'omphalia' in reference to previous classifications that would place it in "Omphalina".

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