Gyrophragmium [SEP] parent taxon
Gyrophragmium
Gyrophragmium is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by French botanist Camille Montagne in 1843.
See also.
- List of Agaricaceae genera
- List of Agaricales genera
Taxonomic history.
The species was first described scientifically as "Secotium texense" by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1873, based on specimens sent to them from western Texas. George Edward Massee transferred it to the genus "Gyrophragmium" in 1891, because of its resemblance to the species "Gyrophragmium delilei", and because he felt that the structure of the volva as well as the internal morphology of the gleba excluded it from "Secotium". In 1916, William Murrill listed the species in "Gymnopus