Macrotyphula

Macrotyphula
Macrotyphula juncea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Typhulaceae
Genus: Macrotyphula
R.H.Petersen (1972)
Type species
Macrotyphula fistulosa
(Holmsk.) R.H.Petersen (1972)
Species

M. cordispora
M. defibulata
M. fistulosa
M. juncea
M. rigida
M. rhizomorpha
M. tremula

Macrotyphula is a genus of clavarioid fungi in the order Agaricales. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains seven species,[1] including the most recently described M. cordispora from Spain (2012).[2] The genus was described in 1972 by American mycologist Ronald H. Petersen, who set M. fistulosa as the type species.[3]

See also

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Rubio E, Gelpi C. (2012). "Macrotyphula cordispora, una nueva especie con esporas cordiformes, hallada en Extremadura". Boletín de la Sociedad Micológica de Madrid (in Spanish) 36: 29–35. ISSN 0214-140X.
  3. Petersen RH. (1972). "Notes on clavarioid fungi. XII. Miscellaneous notes on Clavariadelphus, and a new segregate genus". Mycologia 64 (1): 137–52. doi:10.2307/3758022.

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