Biology:Albatrellaceae

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Short description: Family of fungi

Albatrellaceae
Albatrellus-ovinus.jpg
Albatrellus ovinus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Albatrellaceae
Pouzar (1966)
Type genus
Albatrellus
Gray (1821)
Genera

Albatrellus
Byssoporia[1]
Fevansia[1]
Jahnoporus
Leucogaster
Leucophleps
Mycolevis
Polyporoletus
Scutiger

Synonyms[2]

Leucogastraceae Moreau ex Fogel (1979)[3]

The Albatrellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Russulales. The family contains 9 genera and more than 45 species.[1][4]

Description

Most genera in the family produce fruit bodies which have typical mushroom morphology, with caps and stems. Others form false truffles. It also includes a single corticioid genus; Byssoporia.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "The enigmatic truffle Fevansia aurantiaca is an ectomycorrhizal member of the Albatrellus lineage" (PDF). Mycorrhiza 23: 663–8. 2013. doi:10.1007/s00572-013-0502-2. PMID 23666521. http://fes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/fes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/files/PDFs/2013%20Smith%20Fevansia.pdf. Retrieved 2015-11-26. 
  2. "Albatrellaceae Pouzar 1966". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=89023. 
  3. Fogel R. (1979). "The genus Leucophleps (Basidiomycetes, Leucogastrales)". Canadian Journal of Botany 57 (16): 1718–28. doi:10.1139/b79-211. 
  4. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q927950 entry