Spinellus

Spinellus
Spinellus fusiger growing on Mycena haematopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Zygomycota
Class: incertae sedis
Order: Mucorales
Family: Phycomycetaceae
Genus: Spinellus
Tiegh. (1875)
Type species
Spinellus fusiger
(Link) Tiegh. (1875)
Species

S. chalybeus
S. fusiger
S. sphaerosporus

Spinellus is a genus of fungi in the Phycomycetaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains three species of pin mold that are parasitic on agaric mushrooms.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Phillippe Edouard Leon van Tieghem in 1875.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 651. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ↑ van Tieghem P. (1875). "Nouvelles recherches sur les Mucorinées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique (in French) 1 (6): 66.

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