Gliophorus
Gliophorus is a genus of agaric fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. Gliophorus species belong to a group known as waxcaps in English, sometimes also waxy caps in North America or waxgills in New Zealand. The genus was described by Czech mycologist Josef Herink in 1958,[1] but is currently synonymized with Hygrocybe by most standard authorities.[2][3][4] It has, however, been adopted in New Zealand which has an unusually large number of native Gliophorus species.[5]
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| Gliophorus psittacinus, UK | |
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| Genus: | Gliophorus Herink (1958) |
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| Gliophorus psittacinus (Schaeff.) Herink (1958) | |
Recent molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, suggests that Gliophorus is monophyletic and forms a natural group distinct from Hygrocybe sensu stricto.[6] It is therefore likely to be adopted more widely in the near future, as noted in the most recent (2010) European guide to waxcaps.[4]
Species are distinguished from most other waxcaps by producing basidiocarps (fruit bodies) with extremely slimy or glutinous caps and stems.[5]
Species
- G. bichromus
- G. chromolimoneus
- G. europerplexus[7]
- G. fumosogriseus
- G. graminicolor
- G. irrigatus[8]
- G. laetus
- G. lilacinoides
- G. lilacipes
- G. luteoglutinosus
- G. ostrinus
- G. pallidus
- G. perplexus
- G. pseudograminicolor[8]
- G. psittacinus
- G. perplexus[7]
- G. reginae
- G. subheteromorphus
- G. sulfureus
- G. versicolor
- G. viridis
- G. viscaurantius
Gliophorus viscaurantius (New Zealand) 
Gliophorus viridis (New Zealand) 
Gliophorus laetus (USA) 
Gliophorus chromolimoneus (New Zealand)
References
- Herink J. (1958). "Stavnatkovité houby parhorku "Velká Horka" u Mnichova Hradiste". Sborník Severoceského Musea (in Czech). 1: 53–86.
- "Gliophorus Herink". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
- "Gliophorus Herink 1958". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
- Boertmann D. (2010). The genus Hygrocybe (2nd ed.). Copenhagen: Danish Mycological Society. p. 200. ISBN 978-87-983581-7-6.
- Horak E. (1990). "Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Botany. 28 (3): 255–309. doi:10.1080/0028825x.1990.10412313.
- Babos M, Halász K, Zagyva T, Zöld-Balogh Á, Szegő D, Bratek Z (2011). "Preliminary notes on dual relevance of ITS sequences and pigments in Hygrocybe taxonomy". Persoonia. 26: 99–107. doi:10.3767/003158511X578349. PMC 3160800. PMID 22025807.
- Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC, Cantrell SA, Boertmann D, et al. (2014). "Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)". Fungal Diversity. 64 (1): 1–99. doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0.
- Paul M. Kirk (10 September 2013). "Nomenclatural novelties" (PDF). Index Fungorum (23): 1. ISSN 2049-2375.