''Aleuria'' is a genus of cup
fungi
A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...
within the phylum
Ascomycota
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...
. The best known species is
Orange peel fungus, ''A. aurantia''.
''Aleuria'' species are
saprobe
Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi (f ...
s.
Description
*This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and
epigeous
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In botany, a seed is described as showing epigeal germination when the cotyledons of the germinating seed expand, throw off the ...
nature.
*The
ascospore
An ascus (; ) is the sexual spore-bearing cell produced in ascomycete fungi. Each ascus usually contains eight ascospores (or octad), produced by meiosis followed, in most species, by a mitotic cell division. However, asci in some genera or s ...
s are distinctly
reticulate
Reticulation is a net-like pattern, arrangement, or structure.
Reticulation or Reticulated may refer to:
* Reticulation (single-access key), a structure of an identification tree, where there are several possible routes to a correct identificatio ...
.
*Species are typically (but not always) bright in color.
*
ascocarp
An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are m ...
s are typically over 1 cm in diameter.
Species
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Aleuria alpina''
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Aleuria amplissima''
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Aleuria applanata''
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Aleuria ascophanoides''
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Aleuria aurantia
''Aleuria aurantia'' (orange peel fungus) is a widespread ascomycete fungus in the order Pezizales. The brilliant orange, cup-shaped ascocarps often resemble orange peels strewn on the ground, giving this species its common name.
Taxonomy
Chris ...
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Aleuria balfour-browneae''
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Aleuria boudieri''
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Aleuria carbonicola''
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Aleuria cestrica''
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Aleuria crassa''
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Aleuria crassiuscula''
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Aleuria crucibulum''
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Aleuria dalhousiensis''
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Aleuria exigua''
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Aleuria gigantea''
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Aleuria gonnermannii''
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Aleuria ingrica''
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Aleuria isochroa''
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Aleuria latispora''
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Aleuria lloydiana''
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Aleuria luteonitens''
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Aleuria marchica''
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Aleuria medogensis''
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Aleuria mellea''
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Aleuria membranacea''
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Aleuria mespiliformis''
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Aleuria michiganensis''
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Aleuria murreana''
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Aleuria nemorosa''
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Aleuria nucalis''
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Aleuria ollula''
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Aleuria pectinospora''
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Aleuria phaeospora''
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Aleuria reperta''
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Aleuria riparia''
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Aleuria saccardoi''
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Aleuria splendens''
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Aleuria sylvestris''
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Aleuria tectipus''
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Aleuria tuberculosa''
References
*C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., ''Introductory Mycology, 4th ed.'' (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004)
Pyronemataceae
Pezizales genera
Taxa named by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel
Taxa described in 1870
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