Mesophellia

Mesophellia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hysterangiales
Family: Mesophelliaceae
Genus: Mesophellia
Berk. (1857)
Type species
Mesophellia arenaria
Berk. (1857)
Species

~15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Potoromyces Müll. bis ex Hollós (1902)

Mesophellia is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus contains about 15 species that are found in Australia.[2] Mesophellia was circumscribed by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1857.[3]

Species

References

  1. "Mesophellia Berk. 1857". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. Berkeley MJ. (1857). "On some new fungi". Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London 22: 129–31. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1856.tb00086.x.

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