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  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
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  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies
  7. ›Marasmiineae
  8. ›Porotheleaceae
  9. ›Atheniella
Scarlet Bonnet
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Scarlet Bonnet

Atheniella adonis

Atheniella is an agaric fungal genus that produces brightly colored (yellow, pink, orange, or red) mycenoid fruit bodies on small plant debris on forest floors, in fields and bogs. It is not a member of the Mycenaceae, and unlike most Mycenaceae, its basidiospores and tissues do not react with iodine. Atheniella species were most recently classified in Mycena because of their stature. However, they lack amyloid spores and tissues bewildering taxonomists, leading to temporary placements in...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 485685.