Galerina

Galerina
Galerina marginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Genus: Galerina
Earle (1909)
Type species
Galerina vittiformis
(Fr.) Singer (1950)
Subgenera

Galerina Kühner
Naucoriopsis Kühner
Tubariopsis Kühner

Synonyms[1]
  • Galerula P.Karst. (1879)
  • Pholidotopsis Earle (1909)
  • Velomycena Pilát (1953)

Galerina is a genus of small brown-spore saprobic mushroom-bearing fungi, with over 300 species found throughout the world from the far north to remote Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.[2][3] The genus is most noted for some extremely poisonous species which are occasionally confused with hallucinogenic species of Psilocybe. Galerina mushrooms are typically small and hygrophanous, with a slender and brittle stem. They are often found growing on wood, and when on the ground have a preference for mossy habitats.

Galerina means helmet-like.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference urlMycoBank: Galerina was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Gulden GØ, Stensrud K, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Kauserud H (2005). "Galerina Earle: A polyphyletic genus in the consortium of dark-spored agarics" (PDF). Mycologia. 97 (4): 823–837. doi:10.3852/mycologia.97.4.823. PMID 16457352.
  3. ^ Wood AE (2001). "Studies in the genus Galerina (Agaricales) in Australia". Australian Systematic Botany. 14 (4): 615–676. doi:10.1071/SB99016.
  4. ^ Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians by William C. Roody