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Cyphellostereum brasiliense

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Cyphellostereum brasiliense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Cyphellostereum
Species:
C. brasiliense
Binomial name
Cyphellostereum brasiliense
Ryvarden (2010)

Cyphellostereum brasiliense is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2010 by Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden. The type specimen was collected in São Paulo, where it was found growing on dead mosses. The species has a rounded to slightly spoon-shaped cap, and club-shaped basidia measuring 18–25 by 5–6 μm with oblong to ellipsoid basidiospores measuring 7–8 by 3.5–4.5 μm.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ryvarden, Leif (2010). Stereoid fungi of America. Synopsis Fungorum. Vol. 28. Fungiflora. p. 78. ISBN 9788290724424.