Resinogalea

Resinogalea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Bruceomycetaceae
Genus:	Resinogalea; Rikkinen & A.R.Schmidt (2016)
Species:	R. humboldtensis
Binomial name
	Resinogalea humboldtensis; Rikkinen & A.R.Schmidt (2016)

Resinogalea is a single-species fungus genus in the family Bruceomycetaceae. Both the genus and its species Resinogalea humboldtensis were described as new to science in 2016 by Jouko Rikkinen and Alexander Schmidt. The fungus, found in New Caledonia, grows on the semi-hardened resin exuded by the endemic tree species Araucaria humboldtensis.^[1]

References[]

^ Rikkinen, Jouko; Beimforde, Christina; Seyfullah, Leyla J.; Perrichot, Vincent; Schmidt, Kerstin; Schmidt, Alexander R. (2016). "Resinogalea humboldtensis gen. et sp. nov., a new resinicolous fungus from New Caledonia, placed in Bruceomycetaceae fam. nova (Ascomycota)". Annales Botanici Fennici. 53 (3–4): 205–215. doi:10.5735/085.053.0408. hdl:10138/309662.

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[Rikkinen_et_al._2016-1] Rikkinen, Jouko; Beimforde, Christina; Seyfullah, Leyla J.; Perrichot, Vincent; Schmidt, Kerstin; Schmidt, Alexander R. (2016). "Resinogalea humboldtensis gen. et sp. nov., a new resinicolous fungus from New Caledonia, placed in Bruceomycetaceae fam. nova (Ascomycota)". Annales Botanici Fennici. 53 (3–4): 205–215. doi:10.5735/085.053.0408. hdl:10138/309662.

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