Biology:Pterulicium

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Pterulicium
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Scientific classification
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Pterulicium

Corner
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]


References

  1. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. 2008. 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." (in en). IMA Fungus 11 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6. ISSN 2210-6359. 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. PMID 32617254. 
  4. "Species Fungorum - Pterulicium". http://www.speciesfungorum.org/names/names.asp?strGenus=Pterulicium&GSD=Yes. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7256975 entry