Protostropharia

Protostropharia
Protostropharia semiglobata growing on llama dung in South America
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Strophariaceae
Genus: Protostropharia
Redhead, Moncalvo, & Vilgalys (2013)
Type species
Protostropharia semiglobata
Species

Protostropharia alcis
Protostropharia arctica
Protostropharia dorsipora
Protostropharia islandica
Protostropharia luteonitens
Protostropharia semiglobata
Protostropharia tuberosa

Protostropharia, is a coprophilous agaric fungal genus that produces glutinous, mostly yellowish to yellow brown fruit bodies. Characteristically most form chrysocystidia and rather large, smooth, violaceous basidiospores each with a prominent germ pore (as Stropharia subg. Stercophila[1][2]). It is differentiated from Stropharia by production of astrocystidia on its mycelium rather than by acanthocytes that Stropharia produces.[3][4][5][6] Phylogenetically, Protostropharia is distinct from Stropharia, Pholiota, and Leratiomyces.[7][8] Two species, P. luteonitens and P. tuberosa, form pseudosclerotia in the dung substrates.[9][10]

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