Schenella

Schenella
Schenella simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Geastrales
Family: Geastraceae
Genus: Schenella
T.Macbr. (1911)
Type species
Schenella simplex
T.Macbr. (1911)
Species

S. microspora
S. pityophilus
S. romana
S. simplex

Synonyms[1]

Pyrenogaster Malençon & Riousset (1977)

Schenella is a genus of fungi in the Geastraceae family. The widely distributed genus contains four species.[2] The genus was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride in 1911.[3] Pyrenogaster, described in 1977,[4] is a later synonym.[1][5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Schenella T. Macbr. 1911". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 618. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. Macbride TH. (1911). "A new genus of Myxomycetes". Mycologia 3 (1): 39–40. doi:10.2307/3753654.
  4. Malençon G, Riousset L. (1977). "Pyrenogaster pithyopilus G. Malençon et L. Riousset, nouveau genre et nouvelle espèce de Gastéromycète (Geastraceae)". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (in French) 93 (3): 289–311.
  5. Estrada-Torres A, Gaither TW, Miller DL, Lado C, Keller HW. (2005). "The myxomycete genus Schenella: morphological and DNA sequence evidence for synonymy with the gasteromycete genus Pyrenogaster". Mycologia 97 (1): 139–49. doi:10.3852/mycologia.97.1.139.

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