Chlorophyllum sect. Chlorophyllum Massee

Ge, Zai-Wei, Jacobs, Adriaana, Vellinga, Else C., Sysouphanthong, Phongeun, Walt, Retha van der, Lavorato, Carmine, An, Yi-Feng & Yang, Zhu L., 2018, A multi-gene phylogeny of Chlorophyllum (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota): new species, new combination and infrageneric classification, MycoKeys 32, pp. 65-90 : 69

Chlorophyllum sect. Chlorophyllum Massee

Type.

Chlorophyllum molybdites (G. Mey.) Massee. Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew: 136. 1898.

≡ Agaricus molybdites G. Mey., Prim. fl. esseq.: 300. 1818.

Description.

Basidiocarps medium to large sized, stout, agaricoid, with obvious plate-like squamules. Basidiospores olive to greenish-white, thick-walled, ellipsoid to amygdaliform with a truncate apex, except for C. palaeotropicum , which produce subglobose basidiospores without germ pore. Cheilocystidia broadly clavate to sphaeropedunculate. Pileipellis is a palisade of hyphae with terminal elements clavate to subfusiform.

Discussion.

This section contains the type species of this genus, C. molybdites and also C. globosum , C. pseudoglobosum , as well as the novel taxon C. palaeotropicum .