Clarkeinda

Clarkeinda is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.^[1] According to the Dictionary of the Fungi,^[2] the widespread genus contains five species.^[3] Species in this genus, especially Clarkeinda trachodes, are only distributed in south Asia and southeast Asia.^[4][5]

Clarkeinda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	Clarkeinda Kuntze (1891)
Type species
Clarkeinda pedilia (Berk. & Broome) Kuntze (1891)
Species
C. caparidensis C. coprinus C. pedilia C. pervolvata C. trachodes
Synonyms[1]
Agaricus subgen. Chitonia Fr. (1874) Chitonia (Fr.) P.Karst. (1879) Chitoniella Henn. (1898) Chitonis Clem. (1909)[2]

Taxonomy

Otto Kuntze circumscribed the genus in 1891.^[6] The first part of the generic name Clarkeinda honors British botanist Charles Baron Clarke, and -inda is derived from the Greek 'Iνδóς, meaning "pertaining to India".^[7]

See also

• List of Agaricaceae genera
• List of Agaricales genera

References

1. "Clarkeinda Kuntze 1891". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
2. Clements FE (1909). The Genera of Fungi (1st ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota: H.W. Wilson. p. 114.
3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
4. Hosen MI, Ge ZW (2011). "Clarkeinda trachodes (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes), first record from Bangladesh". Mycotaxon. 118: 331–336. doi:10.5248/118.331.
5. Yang ZL (1991). "Clarkeinda trachodes, an agaric new to China". Acta Botanica Yunnanica. 13: 279–282.
6. Kuntze O. (1891). Revisio generum plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Leipzig, Germany: A. Felix. p. 848.
7. Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press. p. 97.