Handkea

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Hand.utri.jpg | image_caption = ''Handkea utriformis'' | taxon = Handkea | authority = Kreisel | type_species = ''Handkea utriformis'' | type_species_authority = (Bull.) Kreisel }}

'''''Handkea''''' is a genus of puffball mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. In 1989, German mycologist Hanns Kreisel described the genus ''Handkea'' to include species of ''Calvatia'' with distinct microscopic features, including a unique type of capillitium (coarse thick-walled hyphae in the gleba), with curvy slits instead of the usual pores.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kreisel H.|year=1989|title=Studies in the ''Calvatia'' complex (basidiomycetes)|journal=Nova Hedwigia|volume=48|issue=3–4|pages=281–96}}</ref> Although accepted by some authors,<ref name="isbn0-947643-81-8">{{cite book|vauthors=Laessøe T, Pegler DN, Spooner B |title=British puffballs, earthstars and stinkhorns: an account of the British gasteroid fungi|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens|location=Kew|year=1995|isbn=0-947643-81-8}}</ref> the genus concept has been rejected by others.<ref name=Demoulin1990>{{cite journal | last1 = Demoulin | first1 = V | last2 = Lange | first2 = M | year = 1990 | title = ''Calvatia turneri'' (Ellis et Everh.) Demoulin et M. Lange, comb. nov., the correct name for ''C. tatrensis'' Hollós | journal = Mycotaxon | volume = 38 | pages = 221–26 }}</ref><ref>Demoulin V. (1971). "Le genre ''Lycoperdon'' en Europe et en Amérique du Nord. Etude taxonomique et phytogéographique". PhD. thesis, Université de Liège.</ref>

The genus name of ''Handkea'' is in honour of Horst-Herbert Handke (1913-2005), who was a German botanist and Professor at the University of Halle.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

Phylogenetic analyses published in 2008 shows that ''Handkea'' may be grouped in a clade along with species from several other genera, including ''Lycoperdon'', ''Vascellum'', ''Morganella'', ''Bovistella'', and ''Calvatia''.<ref name="pmid18207380">{{cite journal|vauthors=Larsson E, Jeppson M |title=Phylogenetic relationships among species and genera of Lycoperdaceae based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa|journal=Mycological Research|volume=112|issue=Pt 1|pages=4–22|year=2008|pmid=18207380|doi=10.1016/j.mycres.2007.10.018}}</ref>

==Species== {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| *''H. canadensis'' *''H. capensis'' *''H. fumosa'' *''H. hesperia'' *''H. lloydii'' *''H. lycoperdoides'' *''H. subcretacea'' *''H. wandae'' }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Handkea'' Kreisel |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:25306}}

Category:Lycoperdaceae Category:Agaricales genera Category:Puffballs