''Lentaria'' 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
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 ...
in the family
Lentariaceae
The Lentariaceae are a family of fungi belonging in what is classically known as the Gomphales order, or cladistically as the gomphoid-phalloid clade. First described by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1981, the family has 3 genera and 23 ...
. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 17 species.
It was circumscribed by British mycologist
Edred John Henry Corner
Edred John Henry Corner FRS (12 January 1906 – 14 September 1996) was an English mycologist and botanist who occupied the posts of assistant director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1929–1946) and Professor of Tropical Botany at the Uni ...
in 1950.
Many members are important decomposers in forest ecosystems. Samples of the genus were collected in China and studies using molecular and morphological methods. Five of the species collected were described as new species
Species
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Lentaria afflata''
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Lentaria boletosporioides
''Lentaria'' is a genus of fungi in the family Lentariaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 17 species. It was circumscribed by British mycologist Edred John Henry Corner
Edred John Henry Corner FRS (12 January 1906 †...
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Lentaria byssiseda''
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Lentaria caribbeana''
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Lentaria epichnoa
''Lentaria'' is a genus of fungi in the family Lentariaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 17 species. It was circumscribed by British mycologist Edred John Henry Corner in 1950.
Many members are important decomposers in f ...
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Lentaria glaucosiccescens''
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Lentaria javanica''
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Lentaria micheneri''
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Lentaria patouillardii''
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Lentaria rionegrensis''
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Lentaria surculus''
References
Liu, L.-N., Wu, L., Chen, Z.-H., Bau, T., & Zhang, P. (2017). The species of Lentaria (Gomphales, basidiomycota) from China based on morphological and molecular evidence. ''Mycological Progress'', ''16''(6), 605–612.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-017-1284-2
Gomphales
Taxa named by E. J. H. Corner
Taxa described in 1950
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