Terms discussed: Flammula, Galera, Omphalea, Omphalia, Pluteolus
Galera and Flammula are original Friesian brown-spored taxa that are now sections of the genus Pholiota.
Pluteolus (Fries) C. C. Gillet is now called Bolbitius.
Singer synonymized Galerula Karsten with Galerina
Tylostoma is a variant spelling of Tulostoma
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There are, historicallly, several genera called Omphalia (or Omphalea); the confusion was solved by making them all equivalent to Omphalina. Omphalea is one of Linnaeus' original taxa from the Genera Plantarum. This was later misspelled by Persoon as Omphalia, and this version of the name was later validated as a new name by S. F. Gray. Meanwhile, Fries incorporated Persoon's misspelled Omphalia into his Systema Mycologica, and this incarnation of the name was later validated by Staude.
Singer decided to clear things up by declaring all of them synonymous with Omphalina. Now I want to go back to Linnaeus and find out what the heck Omphalea referred to.
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