Biology:Pleurotaceae

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Short description: Family of mushrooms

Pleurotaceae
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Pleurotus ostreatus
Albin Schmalfuß, 1897
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pleurotaceae
Kühner (1980)
Type genus
Pleurotus
(Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871)
Genera

The Pleurotaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have white spores. The family contains 13 genera over 412 species.[1] Members of Pleurotaceae can be mistaken for members of Marasmiaceae. Perhaps the best known member is the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus.

Many species in the genera Pleurotus and Hohenbuehelia are nematophagous, that is, they derive nutrition by consuming nematodes. This is made possible by hyphae that may have adhesive knobs that attach to passing nematodes and secrete nematotoxic compounds.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. "Pleurotaceae | COL". https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/625RB. 
  2. "Phylogenetic analyses and the distribution of nematophagy support a monophyletic Pleurotaceae within the polyphyletic pleurotoid-lentinoid fungi". Mycologia 92 (2): 241–52. 2000. doi:10.1080/00275514.2000.12061151. 
  3. "Phylogenetic analyses of Nematoctonus and Hohenbuehelia (Pleurotaceae)". Canadian Journal of Botany 85 (8): 762–73. 2007. doi:10.1139/b07-083. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7319414 entry