Cystoderma

Cystoderma
Cystoderma amianthinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Cystodermataceae
Genus: Cystoderma
Fayod
Type species
Agaricus amianthinum
(Scop.) Fayod

Cystoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Cystodermataceae. It was long though to belong to the Agaricaceae but recent molecular work has shown otherwise.[1]

The name probably comes from the Greek kýstis meaning pouch and derma meaning skin.

List of species

Below is an incomplete list of Cystoderma species.

References

  1. Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, et al. (2006). "Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview". Mycologia 98: 982–95. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.982. PMID 17486974. Retrieved 2012-03-25.

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