The
type species for Gymnopus, Gymnopus fusipes, dates back to 1806 [(
Pers.)
Roussel].[2] Many of the species now classified in the Gymnopus genera were once assigned to Collybia. In 1997 it was suggested that the genus Collybia be split into three genera, one of them being Gymnopus.[3][4]
Description
In general, Gymnopusfruiting bodies are found in leaf and woody litter. Typically the fruiting bodies are relatively small and range from browns to white in color.[4][5] Their
spore deposit is white.[6] Most species of gymnopus act as decomposers (
saprotrophic).[7] With one known exception (
G. subnudus), the
mating patterns of gymnopus all seem to be bifactorial, meaning that there is more than one
locus responsible for regulating mating compatibility.[8][9]
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^de Roussel, Henri François Anne (1806). Flore du Calvados et terrains adjacents, composée suivant la méthode de Jussieu [Flora of Calvados and adjacent areas, according to the method of Jussieu] (in French) (2nd ed.). Caen: Poisson. p. 62.
^Murphy, John F.; Miller, Orson K. (1993). "The Population Biology of Two Litter Decomposing Agarics on a Southern Appalachian Mountain". Mycologia. 85 (5): 769–776.
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JSTOR3760608.