Pterulicium
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Pterulicium

Type species
Pterulicium xylogenum
(Berk. & Broome) Corner

Pterulicium is a genus of fungi in the Pterulaceae family. The genus was previously monotypic, containing the single species Pterulicium xylogenum, found in southeast Asia.[1] However in 2020 a major reclassification of the Pterulaceae family occurred based on phylogenetic analysis and the Pterula genus was split into Pterula, Myrmecopterula, Pterulicium and Phaeopterula by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith.[2][3]

Species

As of July 2022, Species Fungorum accepted 42 species of Pterulicum.[4]

  1. Pterulicium argentinum
  2. Pterulicium bambusae
  3. Pterulicium bromeliphilum
  4. Pterulicium brunneosetosum
  5. Pterulicium campoi
  6. Pterulicium caricis-pendulae
  7. Pterulicium crassisporum
  8. Pterulicium cystidiatum
  9. Pterulicium debile
  10. Pterulicium echo
  11. Pterulicium epiphylloides
  12. Pterulicium epiphyllum
  13. Pterulicium fasciculare
  14. Pterulicium fluminense
  15. Pterulicium gordium
  16. Pterulicium gracile
  17. Pterulicium incarnatum
  18. Pterulicium intermedium
  19. Pterulicium laxum
  20. Pterulicium lilaceobrunneum
  21. Pterulicium longisporum
  22. Pterulicium macrosporum
  23. Pterulicium majus
  24. Pterulicium mangiforme
  25. Pterulicium microsporum
  26. Pterulicium nanum
  27. Pterulicium naviculum
  28. Pterulicium oryzae
  29. Pterulicium phyllodicola
  30. Pterulicium phyllophilum
  31. Pterulicium rigidum
  32. Pterulicium sclerotiicola
  33. Pterulicium secundirameum
  34. Pterulicium sprucei
  35. Pterulicium subsimplex
  36. Pterulicium subtyphuloides
  37. Pterulicium sulcisporum
  38. Pterulicium tenuissimum
  39. Pterulicium typhuloides
  40. Pterulicium ulmi
  41. Pterulicium velutipes
  42. Pterulicium xylogenum

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 576. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ^ Leal-Dutra, Caio A.; Griffith, Gareth W.; Neves, Maria Alice; McLaughlin, David J.; McLaughlin, Esther G.; Clasen, Lina A.; Dentinger, Bryn T. M. (December 2020). "Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov". IMA Fungus. 11 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6. ISSN 2210-6359. PMC 7325140. PMID 32617254.
  3. ^ Leal-Dutra, C. A.; Griffith, G. W.; Neves, M. A.; McLaughlin, D. J.; McLaughlin, E. G.; Clasen, L. A.; Dentinger, B. T. (2020). "Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov". Ima Fungus. 11: 2. doi:10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6. PMC 7325140. PMID 32617254.
  4. ^ "Species Fungorum - Pterulicium". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2022-07-08.