''Nia'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the
family
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Niaceae
The Niaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. The family contains six genera and 56 species. GBIF (in 2022), accepted 10 genera and 278 species.
Genera
* '' Cyphellopsis'' (3)
* ''Dendrothele'' (64)
* ''Flagelloscypha'' (50)
* '' H ...
. The genus contains three species adapted to a
marine
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environment. All are
wood-rotting fungi, producing small,
gasteroid
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 ins ...
basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on driftwood, submerged timber,
mangrove wood, and similar substrates. The type species, ''
Nia vibrissa'', is widespread in temperate and tropical seas.
References
Niaceae
Agaricales genera
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