''Abstoma'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of gasteroid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. 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 specimen ...

, '' A. purpureum'', was described from New Zealand by mycologist

Gordon Herriot Cunningham Gordon Herriot Cunningham, CBE, FRS (27 August 1892 – 18 July 1962) was the first New Zealand-based mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1936 he was appointed the first director of the DSIR Plant Diseases Division. Cunningham established the ...

in 1926. Wright and colleagues transferred ''A. stuckertii'' (originally ''Bovista stuckertii''

Speg. Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini (20 April 1858 – 1 July 1926), was an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist. On the 1881/1882 expedition led by Giacomo Bove to explore Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, th ...

) to the genus in 1990, but Moreno et al. proposed a new combination ''

Disciseda stuckertii ''Disciseda'' is a genus of gasteroid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. It is a widely distributed genus that is prevalent in arid zones. ''Disciseda'' was circumscribed by mycologist Vassiliĭ Matveievitch Czernajew in 1845. Species , Index Fu ...

'' in 2007. '' A. fimbrialis'' was described from

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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.

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* Agaricaceae Agaricales genera Fungi of Oceania Fungi of New Zealand Taxa named by Gordon Herriot Cunningham {{Agaricaceae-stub

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