Aleuria
Appearance
Aleuria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Pezizomycetes |
Order: | Pezizales |
Family: | Pyronemataceae |
Genus: | Aleuria Fuckel (1870) |
Type species | |
Aleuria aurantia (Pers.) Fuckel (1870)
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Aleuria is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus, A. aurantia.
Aleuria species are saprobes.
Description
[edit]- This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and epigeous nature.
- The ascospores are distinctly reticulate.
- Species are typically (but not always) bright in color.
- ascocarps are typically over 1 cm in diameter.
Species
[edit]- Aleuria alpina
- Aleuria amplissima
- Aleuria applanata
- Aleuria ascophanoides
- Aleuria aurantia
- Aleuria balfour-browneae
- Aleuria boudieri
- Aleuria carbonicola
- Aleuria cestrica
- Aleuria crassa
- Aleuria crassiuscula
- Aleuria crucibulum
- Aleuria dalhousiensis
- Aleuria exigua
- Aleuria gigantea
- Aleuria gonnermannii
- Aleuria ingrica
- Aleuria isochroa
- Aleuria latispora
- Aleuria lloydiana
- Aleuria luteonitens
- Aleuria marchica
- Aleuria medogensis
- Aleuria mellea
- Aleuria membranacea
- Aleuria mespiliformis
- Aleuria michiganensis
- Aleuria murreana
- Aleuria nemorosa
- Aleuria nucalis
- Aleuria ollula
- Aleuria pectinospora
- Aleuria phaeospora
- Aleuria reperta
- Aleuria riparia
- Aleuria saccardoi
- Aleuria splendens
- Aleuria sylvestris
- Aleuria tectipus
- Aleuria tuberculosa
References
[edit]- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5