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Heteroacanthella

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Heteroacanthella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Auriculariales
Genus: Heteroacanthella
Oberw. (1990)
Type species
Heteroacanthella variabilis
Oberw. & Langer (1990)
Species
Synonyms
  • Acanthellorhiza P. Roberts (1999)

Heteroacanthella is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid (effused, patch-forming) with smooth surfaces and occur on dead, attached wood or on lichens.[1] They are microscopically distinctive in having acanthoid (spiny) basidia with just one or two large sterigmata producing large, globose to ellipsoid basidiospores.[2] The genus occurs worldwide, though individual species may be localized.[2] Three species have been described to date.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Zamora J, Perez-Ortega S, Rico V (2014). "Heteroacanthella ellipsospora sp. nov., the first lichenicolous basidiomycete with acanthoid basidia". The Lichenologist. 46 (1): 17–23. doi:10.1017/S0024282913000765.
  2. ^ a b Roberts P. (1999). Rhizoctonia-forming fungi. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-900347-69-3.