Biology:Podostroma

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Podostroma
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Podostroma alutaceum, in James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797)
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Podostroma

P.Karst. (1892)
Type species
Podostroma leucopus
P.Karst. (1892)
Species

see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Hypocrea subgen. Podocrea Sacc. (1883)
  • Podocrea (Sacc.) Lindau (1897)

Podostroma is a genus of fungi in the family Hypocreaceae, circumscribed by the Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1892 and containing eleven species (some highly toxic) with a widespread distribution.[2][3]

Species

  • P. africanum
  • P. alutaceum
  • P. brevipes
  • P. cordyceps
  • P. cornu-damae
  • P. daisenense
  • P. eperuae
  • P. giganteum
  • P. grossum
  • P. solmsii
  • P. zeylanicum

References

  1. "Podostroma P. Karst. 1892". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=4286. Retrieved 2010-10-20. 
  2. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. 2008. p. 552. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  3. Karsten P. (1892). "Fragmenta mycologica XXXVIII". Hedwigia 31: 292–96. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7207078 entry