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Camarophyllopsis olivaceogrisea | |
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Genus: | Camarophyllopsis Herink (1958)
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Camarophyllopsis schulzeri (Bres.) Herink (1958)
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Camarophyllopsis is a genus of agarics (gilled fungi) in the family Clavariaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are dull-coloured and have dry caps, rather distant, decurrent lamellae, white spores, and smooth, ringless stems. In Europe species are characteristic of old, unimproved grasslands (termed waxcap grasslands) which are a declining habitat, making them of conservation concern.
Camarophyllopsis was circumscribed by Czech mycologist Josef Herink in 1958, with Camarophyllopsis schulzeri as the type and only species.[3] Roger Heim had the year previously treated this group of species under the name Hodophilus,[4] but this was invalid because he did not include a Latin diagnosis for the genus, as was required by the rules of nomenclature at the time.[5] Rolf Singer published Hygrotrama in March 1959 (with type species Hygrotrama dennisianum),[1] and the name Hodophilus (type species Hodophilus foetens) was validly published in 1958.
Previously placed in the family Hygrophoraceae based on its morphology,[5][6][7] Camarophyllopsis was shown using molecular phylogenetics to belong in the Clavariaceae.[8] Subsequent research has also shown that the genus Hodophilus is distinct and separate from Camarophyllopsis.[9][10]