Flammulina

[KeenTeen17]

I was just wondering is flammulina velutipes the only flammulina in Britain. Theres a species called Flammulaster which I presume is different

Is this the same with bjerkandera and kuehneromyces - are they the only members of their family like Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina?

Thanks

[flaxton]

KT
There is a Flammulina velutipes var. lactea which some feel is just a pale form.

Bjerkandera adusta has a brother Bjerkandera fumosa and there are other Kuehneromyces.

All of which is available on the Checklist Basidiomycota Checklist-Online - Name Search Page

Mal

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

Is this the same with bjerkandera and kuehneromyces - are they the only members of their family like Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina?

Thanks

Bjerkandera and Kuehneromyces - and indeed Adoxa - are genera not families

this is not nit-picking - you have to understand some taxonomy if you are to further your understanding of the fungal world

(as is realising that genera have a capital letter and the specific name doesn't - it's fundamental to the whole Linnaean system, and is worth paying attention to even in posts on this site)

must try harder KT - as Mal pointed out there are online sources which will tell you all about these issues (it was a lot harder for previous generations who didn't have these resources)

Chris

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

I was just wondering is flammulina velutipes the only flammulina in Britain. Theres a species called Flammulaster which I presume is different

Is this the same with bjerkandera and kuehneromyces - are they the only members of their family like Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina?

Thanks

Hallo KT,

the genera Flammulina and Flammulaster are two very different ones. Their name originates from a ressemblance with species of the genus Flammula, which is today a subgenus oder section of Pholiota.
There are a few Flammulinas out there, but I don't know which are found in Britain. Besides the very common Flammulina velutipes there should be at least Flammulina ononidis, which grows in meadows on calcareous soil between Ononis species. We have it here in Mesobrometum and similar grass land biotops, e.g. the continetal Brometalia with Adonis vernalis.
There is also a Flammulina fennae, but may be that's the species ment with Flammulina velutipes var. lactea, at least what Kühner & Romagnesi have under this name is fennae.
I found in former times a monograph about Flammulina in the Internet, but the Link doesn't work anymore. There were also some more species, from which I think I have found Flammulina rossica in Germany as well.
A monograph of the genus is presented in Mycotaxon 71 (1999) by REDHEAD & PETERSEN.

For Bjerkandera there are about 20 taxa which IF sees in the Meruliaceae and which therefor could be Bjerkandera in the todays sense. But most of them have been combined therto by KARSTEN and KARSTENs concept of Bjerkandera was a good deal wider then ours today.

In Kuehneromyces (if you recognize this genus, many put it into Pholiota) you have a Kuehneromyces lignicola and a K. vernalis. May be the two are synonymous, may be not.

Even Adoxa is not monotypic, by the way, although the 4 or so other Adoxas were all described in the 80th from East Asia.

bestr egards,
Andreas