Blasiphalia

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title: "Blasiphalia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["repetobasidiaceae", "monotypic-basidiomycota-genera"] description: "Genus of fungi" topic_path: "general/repetobasidiaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasiphalia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of fungi ::

| taxon = Blasiphalia | authority = Redhead (2007) | type_species = Blasiphalia pseudogrisella | type_species_authority = (A.H.Sm.) Redhead (2007)

Blasiphalia is a fungal genus in the family Repetobasidiaceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the honey colored omphalinoid agaric https://web.archive.org/web/20071011231357/http://www.arktiskebilleder.dk/siulleq/billede/gr52169.html, Blasiphalia pseudogrisella, which grows with the liverwort genus Blasia. Phylogenetically related agarics are in the genera Rickenella, Gyroflexus, Loreleia, Cantharellopsis and Contumyces, as well as the stipitate-stereoid genera Muscinupta and Cotylidia and clavarioid genus, Alloclavaria. Blasiphalia is most similar to Rickenella and Contumyces, and was only just recognized as a distinct genus in 2007 based upon molecular analysis. The fungus is unique in parasitizing Blasiahttps://web.archive.org/web/20070929092609/http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P5/P53385.php by forming clasping appresoria on its host's rhizoids. Its basidiospores also germinate on the host's gemmae and clasp them and therefore can be disseminated together with the gemmae.

Etymology

Blasiphalia is a nonsense, nontraditionally formulated name vaguely referring to the liverwort genus Blasia and a fragment of the word 'omphalia' in reference to previous classifications that would place it in Omphalina.

References

References

1. Larsson, K.-H.. (2006). "Hymenochaetales: a molecular phylogeny for the hymenochaetoid clade". Mycologia.
2. (2006). "Reconstructing the Clavariaceae using nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences and a new genus segregated from ''Clavaria''". Mycologia.
3. Redhead, S.A.. (1981). "Parasitism of bryophytes by agarics". Canadian Journal of Botany.
4. Kost, G.. (1988). "Interactions between Basidiomycetes and Bryophyta". Endocytobiosis and Cell Research.
5. Redhead, S.A.. (1980). "CBS fungal Biodiversity centre". Fungi Canadenses.

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