Ugola

Ugola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Subdivision: Agaricomycotina
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Lyophyllaceae
Genus: Ugola
Adans.
Type species
Ugola physaroides
Species

U. baryana
U. physaroides
U. praticola

Ugola is a genus of fungi in the Lyophyllaceae family. The genus was first described scientifically by the French naturalist Michel Adanson in his 1763 Familles des Plantes.[1] The three fungi in the genus are anamorphs of species of Asterophora,[2] a genus of fungi that are parasitic on other mushrooms.[3]

References

  1. Adanson M. (1763). Familles des plantes (in French) 2. Paris, France: Vincent. p. 5.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 711. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. Redhead SA, Seifert KA. (2001). "Asterophora Ditmar ex Link 1809 versus Nyctalis Fries 1825, and the status of Ugola Adanson 1763". Taxon 50 (1): 243–68. doi:10.2307/1224526. (subscription required)

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