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''Entocybe'' is a genus of agaric fungi in the family 
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 ...
. It was circumscribed in 2011 to contain several former '' Entoloma'' species having obscurely angular spores with 6–10 angles (some formerly classified as ''Rhodocybe
''Rhodocybe'' is a small genus of small and medium-sized brownish-pink spored mushrooms, or (following recent mycological research) it is a subgroup of genus ''Clitopilus''. These mushrooms are saprotrophic and most grow on the ground, but some ...
''). Based on three locus DNA analysis
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, these species form a distinct, well-defined clade
A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...
in the Entomolataceae that is basal
Basal or basilar is a term meaning ''base'', ''bottom'', or ''minimum''.
Science
* Basal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features associated with the base of an organism or structure
* Basal (medicine), a minimal level that is nec ...
to ''Entoloma''. The genus name, a combination of ''Entoloma'' and ''Rhodocybe'', alludes to similarities with species in those genera. '' E. melleogrisea'', found in a subboreal
The Subboreal is a climatic period, immediately before the present one, of the Holocene. It lasted from 3710 to 450 BCE.
Etymology
The composite scientific term ''Subboreal'', meaning "below the Boreal," is derived from the Latin ''sub'' (bel ...
forest in Québec
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, Canada, was described as a new species in 2013. Unlike the mostly collybioid
''Collybia'' (in the strict sense) is a genus of mushrooms in the family Tricholomataceae. The genus has a widespread but rare distribution in northern temperate areas, and contains three species that grow on the decomposing remains of other mus ...
fruit bodies of most other ''Entocybe'' species, ''E. melleogrisea'' has a tricholomatoid stature.
Species
See also
*List of Entolomataceae genera The mushroom genera in the family Entolomataceae collectively contain over 1500 species, the large majority of which are in ''Entoloma''. There have been many different classifications of this group, and so the table below includes not only genera ...
References
Entolomataceae {{Agaricales-stub