Biology:Aleuria

Short description: Genus of fungi

Aleuria
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Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Pezizomycetes
Order:	Pezizales
Family:	Pyronemataceae
Genus:	Aleuria Fuckel (1870)
Type species
Aleuria aurantia (Pers.) Fuckel (1870)

Aleuria is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus, A. aurantia.

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

• Aleuria alpina
• Aleuria amplissima
• Aleuria applanata
• Aleuria ascophanoides
• Aleuria aurantia
• Aleuria balfour-browneae
• Aleuria boudieri
• Aleuria carbonicola
• Aleuria cestrica
• Aleuria crassa
• Aleuria crassiuscula
• Aleuria crucibulum
• Aleuria dalhousiensis
• Aleuria exigua
• Aleuria gigantea
• Aleuria gonnermannii
• Aleuria ingrica
• Aleuria isochroa
• Aleuria latispora
• Aleuria lloydiana
• Aleuria luteonitens
• Aleuria marchica
• Aleuria medogensis
• Aleuria mellea
• Aleuria membranacea
• Aleuria mespiliformis
• Aleuria michiganensis
• Aleuria murreana
• Aleuria nemorosa
• Aleuria nucalis
• Aleuria ollula
• Aleuria pectinospora
• Aleuria phaeospora
• Aleuria reperta
• Aleuria riparia
• Aleuria saccardoi
• Aleuria splendens
• Aleuria sylvestris
• Aleuria tectipus
• Aleuria tuberculosa

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

Wikidata ☰ Q1144912 entry