Amaurodon

Amaurodon
Amaurodon viridis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Thelephoraceae
Genus: Amaurodon
J.Schröt. (1888)
Type species
Amaurodon viridis
(Alb. & Schwein.) J.Schröt. (1888)

Amaurodon is a genus of fungi in the family Thelephoraceae. Species in the genus have resupinate (flattened) fruit bodies that grow on rotting wood. The hymenophore may have pores, teeth, or be smooth, and are typically blue to green in color.[1]

Species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Miettinen O, Kõljalg U. (2007). "Amaurodon sumatranus (Thelephorales, Basidiomycota), a new species from Indonesia". Mycotaxon 100: 51–59.
  2. Gardt S, Yorou NS, Guissou M-L, Guelly AK, Agerer R. (2011). "Amaurodon angulisporus (Basidiomycota, Fungi), a new species from West Africa identified by molecular and anatomical features". Nova Hedwigia 93 (1–2): 237–247. doi:10.1127/0029-5035/2011/0093-0237.
  3. Agerer R, Bougher NL. (2001). "Amaurodon aquicoeruleus (Thelephoraceae, Hymenomycetes, Basidiomycota), a new species from Australia with spores distinctly blue in water". Australian Systematic Botany 14 (4): 599–601. doi:10.1071/SB00030.
  4. Koljalg U, Ryvarden L. (1997). "A new species of Amaurodon (Basidiomycota, Aphyllophorales)". Mycotaxon 65: 107–112.

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