Flammulina P. Karst.
(velvet shanks)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Flammulina fennae a velvet shank	Species			2 ident. refs
Flammulina ononidis (Restharrow Velvet Shank)	Species			1 ident. refs
Flammulina rossica (A Velvet Shank)	Species			1 ident. refs
Flammulina velutipes Velvet Shank, Winter Fungus	Species	2 subtaxa	41 images	3 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Flammulina (velvet shanks)
Family	PHYSALACRIACEAE (a family of toadstools and chanterelles)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Flammulina is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Kibby, G.	2011	Fungal Portraits No. 46: Flammulina populicola & F. elastica, the first British collections	Field Mycology vol 12 (2): 39-41.
Pertersen, R.H., Hughes, K.W, & Redhead, S.A.		The genus Flammulina: a Tennessee tutorial	www.bio.utk.edu/mycology/Flammulina/default.html
Ripková, S., Hughes, K. Adamčík, S., Kučera, V. & Adamčíková, K.	2010	The delimitation of Flammulina fennae	Mycological Progress Vol 9 (4): 469-484.

Flammulina (velvet shanks) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PHYSALACRIACEAE
(a family of toadstools and chanterelles)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Flammulina (velvet shanks)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 56 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Flammulina (velvet shanks)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Flammulina is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)