Wenyingia

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Wenyingia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Wenyingia
Zheng Wang & Pfister (2001)
Type species
Wenyingia sichuanensis
Zheng Wang & Pfister (2001)

Wenyingia is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Wenyingia sichuanensis, found in 1997 in the western Sichuan Province in China. The specific epithet is named for Professor Wen-ying Zhuang, mycologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1] A cup fungus, its distinctive feature is a very thin spider-web membrane that covers the hymenium.

References

  1. Wang Z, Pfister DH. (2001). Wenyingia, a new genus in Pezizales (Otideaceae). Mycotaxon 79: 3979.

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