Melanoleuca
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Melanoleuca is a poorly known genus of saprotrophic mushrooms traditionally classified in the family Tricholomataceae. Most are small to medium sized, white, brown, ocher or gray with a cylindrical to subcylindrical stipe and white to pale yellowish gills. The basidiospores are ellipsoid and ornamented with amyloid warts.[3][4][5] Melanoleuca is considered a difficult group to study due to their macroscopic similarities among species and the need of a thorough microscopic analysis to separate species.[6] DNA studies have determined that this genus is closely related to Amanita and Pluteus and that it does not belong to the family Tricholomataceae.[7][8]
Melanoleuca | |
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Melanoleuca cognata | |
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Genus: | Melanoleuca Pat. (1897) |
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Melanoleuca melaleuca | |
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Melanoleuca | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Cap is convex or depressed | |
Hymenium is adnate or adnexed | |
Stipe is bare | |
Spore print is white to cream | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is edible or unknown |