Phlegmacium – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Phlegmacium (Fr.) Wünsche.

Index Fungorum number: IF 18258; Mycobank number: MB 18258

Notes – This predominantly Northern Hemispheric genus is estimated to include around 200 species. Basidiomes are medium- to large-sized, rarely small. Typical for the species are a dry stipe and viscid to glutinous pileus, or if dry, then the KOH reaction in the context of the pileus is usually yellow. Most species have a pileipellis duplex with a more or less developed hypoderm but the species of the subgenus Cyanicium and some lineages of P. subgen. Phlegmacium have a simplex pileipellis. The genus includes four subgenera: Phlegmacium, Bulbopodium, Carbonella and Cyanicium (Liimatainen et al. 2022).

Species