Aleuria
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| Genus: | Aleuria Fuckel (1870)
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| Aleuria aurantia (Pers.) Fuckel (1870)
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Aleuria is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus.
Aleuria species are saprobes.
Description[]
- This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and epigeous nature.
- The ascospores are distinctly reticulate.
- Species are typically (but not always) bright in color.
- ascocarps are typically over 1 cm in diameter.
Species[]
References[]
- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
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Categories:
- Pyronemataceae
- Pezizales genera
- Taxa named by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel
- Taxa described in 1870
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