''Chamaeota'' is a

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in the

Pluteaceae The Pluteaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have free gill attachment and pink spores. Members of Pluteaceae can be mistaken for members of Entolomataceae, but can be distinguished by the angled spores and attached gills ...

family of small- to medium-sized mushrooms. They have a central stipe, free

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, smooth pink

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s, and a

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that usually forms an

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(ring) on the stipe. ''Chamaeota'' can be distinguished from ''

Volvariella ''Volvariella'' is a genus of mushrooms with deep salmon pink gills and spore prints. Description They lack a ring, and have an Amanita-like volva at the stem base. Some species of Amanita look similar, but Amanita has white spores and often h ...

'' by its lack of a volva and from ''

Entolomataceae The Entolomataceae, also known as Rhodophyllaceae, are a large family of pink-spored terrestrial gilled mushrooms which includes the genera ''Entoloma'', '' Rhodocybe'', and ''Clitopilus''. The family collectively contains over 1500 species, the ...

'' by its free gills and smooth spores. Members of ''Chamaeota'' are extremely rare. Most species are tropical but at least two species exist in the United States. The

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is ''Chamaeota xanthogramma'' (Ces.) Earle s 'xanthogrammus'(1909).

Notable species

* '' Chamaeota broadwayi''

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(1911) * '' Chamaeota dextrinoidespora'' Z.S. Bi (1988) * '' Chamaeota fenzlii'' (Schulzer)

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(1979) (eq '' Pluteus fenzlii'') * '' Chamaeota insignis'' (Cooke & Massee) Pegler (1965) * '' Chamaeota longipes'' Wichanský (1967) * '' Chamaeota sinica'' J.Z. Ying (1995) * '' Chamaeota sphaerospora'' (eq '' Pluteus mammillatus'') * '' Chamaeota subolivascens'' Courtec. (1991) * '' Chamaeota tropica'' Pegler (1983) * '' Chamaeota xanthogramma'' (Ces.) Earle (1909)

External links

Photographs of ''Chamaeota sphaerospora''

* ttp://taxon.molgen.mpg.de/getinfo?334533 TAXON info for Chamaeota Pluteaceae Agaricales genera {{Agaricales-stub