A monograph on the genus Galerina Earle / by Alexander H. Smith and Rolf Singer.

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CLASSIFICATION OF SPECIES
GALERINA Earle
Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 5: 423. 1909.
Agaricus tribus Galera Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 264. 1821.
Galera (Fr.) Kummer, Fuhrer in Pilzk. p. 74. 1871.
(non Galera Blume, 1825)
Pholidotopsis Earle, Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 5: 443. 1909.
DEFINITION: Carpophores typically mycenoid in aspect but in some
groups collybioid to omphalioid; veil absent to well developed and often
leaving a membranous annulus; pileus typically hygrophanous, rarely dry
and fibrillose; cuticle variable from scarcely differentiated to a well formed
gelatinous pellicle of narrow appressed hyphae, not cellular, loosely fibrillose
or with an obscure trichodermium in a few rare species; pilocystidia abundant and characteristic in some species, absent in most; color of pileus pallid
to dark russet, usually some shade of tawny; lamellae attached to the stipe
but type of attachment variable, typically ascending-adnate with a tooth,
spacing, width and color when young of minor significance, margins often
whitish from cheilocystidia; stipe typically mycenoid in aspect but rather
tough in the larger lignicolous forms, typically honey color or more ochraceous, often darkening to blackish or bay brown from base upward, usually
with caulocystidia at least over apical region but in some groups down to
below the midportion, pseudorrhiza lacking as far as known.
Spores rusty brown in deposit and usually darkening in alkali, usually
ornamented with the warty to wrinkled remains of an exosporium which
covers all except the suprahilar depression thus leaving a smooth "plage"
as it is called, sometimes the spore entirely smooth, sometimes roughened
over all including the plage, but then the hyphae of the carpophore lack
clamp connections, wall distinctly complex and usually appreciably thickened; basidia normal but variable (1-4 spored) from species to species or
within a species in the number of spores produced: pleurocystidia present
or absent and of diverse types depending on the species; cheilocystidia
almost invariably present and often very characteristic; gill trama of nearly
parallel to somewhat interwoven hyphae, with or without incrusted pigments on the walls, subhymenium gelatinous in a few species but mostly not
distinctive; cuticle of pileus as given above; pilocystidia and caulocystidia
may be present and vary as to type depending on the species.
HABIT, HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION: Typically non-mycorrhiza forming
but possibly mildly parasitic on mosses at times, usually associated with
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