Urnula

Urnula
The devil's urn, Urnula craterium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Sarcosomataceae
Genus: Urnula
Fr. (1849)
Type species
Urnula craterium
(Schwein.) Fr. (1851)
Species

U. craterium
U. groenlandica
U. helvelloides
U. lusitanica
U. megalocrater
U. torrendia

Urnula is a genus of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae, circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1849.[1] The genus contains six species found in Europe and North America. [2]

References

  1. ^ Fries EM. (1849). (in Latin)Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae (Stockholm & Leipzig: A. Bonnier) 2: 364. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32636985. 
  2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 714. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.