Parasola Redhead, Vilgalys & Hopple.

Index Fungorum number: IF 28505; Mycobank number: MB 28505

Notes – Parasola is a genus of coprinoid mushroom that forms a small, umbrella-like, non-deliquescent pilei lacking of veils (Redhead et al. 2001; Nagy et al. 2009). Parasola plicatilis is the specific type species (Redhead et al. 2001). The species are common decomposers of leaf-litter, wood and herbivore dung (Schafer 2014), and are distributed worldwide. Species of Parasola are divided into section Auricomi (the presence of thick-walled, brown sclerocystidia) and section Parasola (the absence of thick-walled, brown sclerocystidia, Schafer 2010). There are 48 epithets listed in the Index Fungorum (2022). However, the genus currently has 24 species based on recent taxonomic treatments dealing with morphological and molecular studies (Nagy et al. 2010; Schafer 2014; Hussain et al. 2016, 2017, 2018; Szarkándi et al. 2017; Schafer et al. 2022).

Species