''Oudemansiella'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the family
Physalacriaceae
The Physalacriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, ranging from the Arctic, ('' Rhizomarasmius''), to the tropics, e.g. '' Gloiocephala'', and from marine sites ('' Mycaureola ...
. The genus contains about 15 species that are widely distributed in
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
and
temperate
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regions.
[ Yang and colleagues revised the genus in a 2009 publication, describing several new species and several varieties. They classified species in the genus into four sections based on the structure of the ]cap cuticle
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: ''Oudemansiella'', '' Mucidula'', ''Dactylosporina'', and '' Radicatae''.[
The genus name of ''Oudemansiella'' is in honour of Corneille Antoine Jean Abram Oudemans or Cornelis Antoon Jan Abraham Oudemans (1825–1906), who was a Dutch botanist and physician who specialized in fungal systematics.]circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by Carlos Luis Spegazzini in Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. vol.12 on page 23 in 1881.
Species
*'' O. africana''
*'' O. alveolata''
*'' O. atrocaerulea''
*'' O. aureocystidiata''
*'' O. australis''
*'' O. bii''
*'' O. bispora''
*'' O. caulovillosa''
*'' O. canarii''
*'' O. chiangmaiae''
*'' O. colensoi''
*'' O. crassibasidiata''
*'' O. eradicata''
*'' O. flavo-olivacea''
*'' O. furfuracea''
*'' O. gigaspora''
*'' O. globospora''
*'' O. incognita''
*'' O. japonica''
*'' O. kenyae''
*'' O. latilamellata''
*'' O. limonispora''
*'' O. macracantha''
*'' O. mammicystis''
*'' O. megalospora''
*'' O. melanotricha''
*'' O. mucida''
*'' O. mundroola''
*'' O. orientiradicata''
*'' O. platensis''
*'' O. rhodophylla''
*'' O. rubrobrunnescens''
*'' O. rugosoceps''
*'' O. semiglabripes''
*'' O. sinopudens''
*'' O. steffenii''
*'' O. subinucida''
*'' O. superbiens''
*'' O. tetrasperma''
*'' O. trichofera''
*'' O. variabilis''
*'' O. vinocontusa''
Gallery
Image:Oudemansiella mucida 170906a.jpg, ''Oudemansiella mucida
''Oudemansiella mucida'', commonly known as porcelain fungus, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Physalacriaceae and native to Europe.
''O. mucida'' is a white, slimy wood-rot fungus and is strongly tied to rotting beech, where it grows ...
'', Hohenlohe, Germany
Image:Oudemansiella mucida 170906.jpg, ''Oudemansiella mucida
''Oudemansiella mucida'', commonly known as porcelain fungus, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Physalacriaceae and native to Europe.
''O. mucida'' is a white, slimy wood-rot fungus and is strongly tied to rotting beech, where it grows ...
'', Hohenlohe, Germany
References
External links
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Physalacriaceae
Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini
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