Australicium

Australicium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Phanerochaetaceae
Genus:	Australicium; Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2002)
Type species
	Australicium singulare; (G.Cunn.) Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2002)
Species
	;

Australicium is a genus of two species of crust fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae. The genus was circumscribed by mycologists Kurt Hjortstam and Leif Ryvarden in 2002 to contain the type species, , which is found in New Zealand.^[1] The Venezuelan species was added to the genus in 2005.^[2]

References[]

^ Hjortstam, Kurt; Ryvarden, Leif (2002). "Australicium (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales) a new genus for Corticium singulare G. Cunn". Synopsis Fungorum. 15: 18–21.
^ Ryvarden, Leif; Hjortstam, Kurt; Iturriaga, Teresa (2005). "Studies in corticioid fungi from Venezuela II (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales)". Synopsis Fungorum. 20: 42–78.

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[Hjortstam_2002-1] Hjortstam, Kurt; Ryvarden, Leif (2002). "Australicium (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales) a new genus for Corticium singulare G. Cunn". Synopsis Fungorum. 15: 18–21.

[Hjortstam_2005-2] Ryvarden, Leif; Hjortstam, Kurt; Iturriaga, Teresa (2005). "Studies in corticioid fungi from Venezuela II (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales)". Synopsis Fungorum. 20: 42–78.

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