Sidera (fungus)

Sidera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Repetobasidiaceae
Genus: Sidera
Miettinen & K.H.Larss. (2011)
Type species
Sidera lenis
(P.Karst.) Miettinen (2011)
Species

Sidera lenis
Sidera lowei
Sidera lunata
Sidera vulgaris

Sidera is a genus of fungi in the Hymenochaetales. Circumscribed in 2011, the genus is characterized by species that have whitish resupinate fruit bodies, crystal rosettes on specialized hyphae, and sausage-shaped (allantoid) spores.[1]

References

  1. Miettinen O, Larsson KH. (2011). "Sidera, a new genus in Hymenochaetales with poroid and hydnoid species". Mycological Progress 10 (2): 131–41. doi:10.1007/s11557-010-0682-5.


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