Chrysomycena

Chrysomycena is an agaric fungal genus comprising one wood-decaying species found in Italy, Chrysomycena perplexa.^[1] It was first formally named in 2019.

Chrysomycena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Porotheleaceae
Genus:	Chrysomycena Vizzini, Picillo, L. Perrone & Dovana
Species:	C. perplexa
Binomial name
Chrysomycena perplexa Picillo, Vizzini & L. Perrone

The species has small golden yellow fruiting bodies resembling unrelated agarics in the Hygrophoraceae or Mycenaceae, with slightly slippery caps and a frosted yellowish stipe. The spores are slightly amyloid and the tissues of the fruitbodies have sarcodimitic construction.^{[citation needed]}