Preussia (fungus)

Preussia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Sporormiaceae
Genus: Preussia
Fuckel (1867)
Type species
Preussia funiculata
(Preuss) Fuckel (1870)

Preussia is a genus of fungi in the family Sporormiaceae.[1] The widespread genus contains 51 species that grow on dung or in the soil.[2]

Species

References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 561. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.


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