Heteroacanthella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Auriculariales |
Genus: | Heteroacanthella Oberw. (1990) |
Type species | |
Heteroacanthella variabilis Oberw. & Langer (1990)
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Heteroacanthella is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid (effused, patch-forming) with smooth surfaces and occur on dead, attached wood or on lichens.[1] They are microscopically distinctive in having acanthoid (spiny) basidia with just one or two large sterigmata producing large, globose to ellipsoid basidiospores.[2] The genus occurs worldwide, though individual species may be localized.[2] Three species have been described to date.[1]