Protostropharia
| Protostropharia | |
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| Protostropharia semiglobata growing on llama dung in South America | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Strophariaceae |
| Genus: | Protostropharia Redhead, Moncalvo, & Vilgalys (2013) |
| Type species | |
| Protostropharia semiglobata (Batsch) Redhead, Moncalvo, Vilgalys (2013)
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| Species | |
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Protostropharia alcis | |
| Protostropharia | |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
| Gills on hymenium | |
| Cap is convex | |
| Hymenium is adnate | |
| Stipe has a ring | |
| Spore print is purple-black | |
| Ecology is saprotrophic | |
| Edibility is unknown | |
Protostropharia, is a coprophilous agaric fungal genus that produces glutinous, mostly yellowish to yellow brown fruit bodies. Characteristically most form chrysocystidia and rather large, smooth, violaceous basidiospores each with a prominent germ pore (as Stropharia subg. Stercophila). It is differentiated from Stropharia by production of astrocystidia on its mycelium rather than by acanthocytes that Stropharia produces. Phylogenetically, Protostropharia is distinct from Stropharia, Pholiota, and Leratiomyces. Two species, P. luteonitens and P. tuberosa, form pseudosclerotia within the dung substrate.