 Redhead and Smith placed the genus in the Strophariaceae , as the biology of the fruit bodies and spore print color fit the broad concept of that family envisaged by Robert Kühner in 1984 . They noted , however , that the genus did not fit well in a more restricted concept of the family due to its lack of a germ pore and roughened spore walls . More recently , taxonomic authorities have placed the genus in the family Psathyrellaceae ; molecular analysis shows it to be most closely allied to this group . Mythicomyces and Stagnicola form a clade that is sister to the rest of the family . 
