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Echinoderma

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{About|the fungus|the phylum including starfish and sea urchins|Echinoderm}}

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| image = Echinoderma asperum a1 (1).JPG

| image_caption = Echinoderma asperum

| taxon = Echinoderma

| authority = (Locq. ex Bon) Bon (1991)

| type_species = Echinoderma asperum

| type_species_authority = (Pers.) Bon (1991)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

| synonyms = *Cystolepiota subgen. Echinoderma Locq. ex Bon (1981)

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Echinoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its members were for a long time considered to belong to genus Lepiota and the group was then circumscribed by French mycologist Marcel Bon in 1981 as a subgenus of Cystolepiota before he raised it to generic status in 1991.

General info

This genus belongs to a group of genera allied to Lepiota with a white spore print, free (or almost free) gills, stipe easily separable from the cap and having a partial veil. Amongst the Agaricaceae it is characterized by the white spore powder, cap skin microscopically an epithelium with rounded cells, and a brownish cap and stipe, with brown scales.

The name comes from the Greek "echinos" (ἐχῖνος) meaning a hedgehog or sea-urchin and "derma" (δέρμα) meaning skin, referring to the spiny cap surface. The noun "derma" is neuter and therefore if the species name is an adjective, it needs to take the neuter ending (example: Echinoderma asperum).

All of the species in the genus reproduce by means of spores and are unicellular.https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4123 (Parts of the PDF linked on the website contains info not here on this genus)

Species

See also

  • List of Agaricaceae genera
  • List of Agaricales genera
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73609 A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries: (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms)] (1901), British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology et al.

References

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{{cite journal |author=Bon M. |title=Clé monographique des Lépiotes d'Europe (Agaricaceae, Tribus Lepioteae et Leucocoprineae) |journal=Documents Mycologiques |year=1981 |volume=11 |issue=43 |pages=1–77 |language=French}}

{{cite journal |author=Bon M. |title=Les genres Echinoderma (Locq. ex Bon) st. nov. et Rugosomyces Raithelhuber ss lato |journal=Documents Mycologiques |year=1991 |volume=21 |issue=82 |pages=61–66 |language=French}}

{{cite book |author1=Courtecuisse, R. |author2=Duhem, B. |title=Champignons de France et d'Europe |language=French |publisher=Delachaux et Niestlé |year=2013 |page=60 |isbn=978-2-603-02038-8 }} Also available in English.

{{cite book |editor-first1=H. |editor-last1=Knudsen |editor-first2=J. |editor-last2=Vesterholt |title=Funga Nordica Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera |publisher=Nordsvamp |location=Copenhagen |year=2008 |page=519 |isbn=978-87-983961-3-0}}

{{cite web |url=http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.27:10:154.LSJ |title=ἐχῖνος |work=A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text |author=Henry George Liddell |author2=Robert Scott |publisher=Tufts University, Oxford |accessdate=2017-05-25}}

{{cite web |url=http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.16:1:125.LSJ |title=δέρμα |work=A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text |author=Henry George Liddell |author2=Robert Scott |publisher=Tufts University, Oxford |accessdate=2017-05-25}}

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Category:Agaricaceae

Category:Agaricales genera