''Ripartites'' is a
genus of
fungi in the family
Tricholomataceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and originally contained five species.
Species in ''Ripartites'' have small, round to subglobose
spore
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s, which are yellowish-brown and ornamented. Macroscopically, they resemble ''
Clitocybe''. ''Ripartites'' was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Petter Karsten
Petter Adolf Karsten (16 February 1834 – 22 March 1917) was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology".
Karsten was born in Merimasku near Turku, s ...
in 1879.
The genus name of ''Ripartites'' is in honour of
Jean Baptiste Marie Joseph Solange Eugène Ripart (1815–1878), who was a French physician,
botanist
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and
mycologist
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.
Previously unknown
sesquiterpenes have been isolated from ''Ripartites metrodii'' and ''Ripartites tricholoma''.
Species
As accepted by
Species Fungorum;
* ''
Ripartites albidoincarnatus''
* ''
Ripartites amparae''
* ''
Ripartites flabellatus''
* ''
Ripartites krieglsteineri''
* ''
Ripartites metrodii''
* ''
Ripartites odorus''
* ''
Ripartites serotina''
* ''
Ripartites tricholoma''
Former species
* ''R. scambus'' = ''
Pholiota scamba'' within the
Strophariaceae family
See also
*
List of Tricholomataceae genera
References
External links
*
Tricholomataceae
Agaricales genera
Taxa named by Petter Adolf Karsten
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