''Abstoma'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
gasteroid fungi
The gasteroid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota. Species were formerly placed in the obsolete class Gasteromycetes Fr. (literally "stomach fungi"), or the equally obsolete order Gasteromycetales Rea, because they produce spores insi ...
in the family
Agaricaceae
The Agaricaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi and include the genus ''Agaricus'', as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae.
Taxonomy
The family Agaricaceae was publishe ...
. The
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
,
''
A. purpureum'', was
described from New Zealand by mycologist
Gordon Herriot Cunningham in 1926.
Wright and colleagues transferred ''A. stuckertii'' (originally ''Bovista stuckertii''
Speg.) to the genus in 1990,
but Moreno et al. proposed a new combination ''
Disciseda stuckertii'' in 2007.
''
A. fimbrialis'' was described from
Baja California
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, Mexico, in 1992.
''
'' is found in western and southwest USA and in west Argentina, while ''
A. reticulatum'' occurs in Australia and the western and southwestern USA.
See also
*
List of Agaricaceae genera
This is a list of genera in the mushroom-forming fungus family Agaricaceae.
Genera
See also
* List of Agaricales families
* List of Agaricales genera
References
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;References
Cited texts
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References
External links
*
Agaricaceae
Agaricales genera
Fungi of Oceania
Fungi of New Zealand
Taxa named by Gordon Herriot Cunningham
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