Echinoderma is a genus of fungi 

Echinoderma asperum (location: Poland,Kamionna (województwo małopolskie)

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.

  • Bon M. (1981). “Clé monographique des Lépiotes d’Europe (Agaricaceae, Tribus Lepioteae et Leucocoprineae)”. Documents Mycologiques (in French). 11 (43): 1–77.
  • Bon M. (1991). “Les genres Echinoderma (Locq. ex Bon) st. nov. et Rugosomyces Raithelhuber ss lato”. Documents Mycologiques (in French). 21 (82): 61–66.
Echinoderma
Echinoderma asperum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Fungi
Division:Basidiomycota
Class:Agaricomycetes
Order:Agaricales
Family:Agaricaceae
Genus:Echinoderma
(Locq. ex Bon) Bon (1991)
Type species
Echinoderma asperum
(Pers.) Bon (1991)
Synonyms
Cystolepiota subgen. Echinoderma Locq. ex Bon (1981)

General

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. Hm…is that in conflict with the first paragraph or did my brain melt?

  • Courtecuisse, R.; Duhem, B. (2013). Champignons de France et d’Europe (in French). Delachaux et Niestlé. p. 60. ISBN 978-2-603-02038-8. Also available in English.

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.

  • Knudsen, H.; Vesterholt, J., eds. (2008). Funga Nordica Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Copenhagen: Nordsvamp. p. 519. ISBN 978-87-983961-3-0.

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).

  • Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. “ἐχῖνος”A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  • Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. “δέρμα”A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford. Retrieved 2017-05-25.

Species

See also

References

  1. Bon M. (1981). “Clé monographique des Lépiotes d’Europe (Agaricaceae, Tribus Lepioteae et Leucocoprineae)”. Documents Mycologiques (in French). 11 (43): 1–77.
  2. Bon M. (1991). “Les genres Echinoderma (Locq. ex Bon) st. nov. et Rugosomyces Raithelhuber ss lato”. Documents Mycologiques (in French). 21 (82): 61–66.
  3. Courtecuisse, R.; Duhem, B. (2013). Champignons de France et d’Europe (in French). Delachaux et Niestlé. p. 60. ISBN 978-2-603-02038-8. Also available in English.
  4. Knudsen, H.; Vesterholt, J., eds. (2008). Funga Nordica Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Copenhagen: Nordsvamp. p. 519. ISBN 978-87-983961-3-0.
  5. Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. “ἐχῖνος”A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  6. Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. “δέρμα”A Greek-English Lexicon; Machine readable text. Tufts University, Oxford. Retrieved 2017-05-25.

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