Sections of the genus Limacella

At present, the genus Limacella can be divided into three parts, which, for the moment, in these pages, we will call sections.  In this, we follow Gminder (1994).

For some time, the species with "dry" stems were segregated from those with glutinous stems—producing two sections.  In recent years, mycologists have observed that there were two separable subgroups within the dry-stemmed group.  For the moment, we treat the three groupings at the same rank.

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