Stegiacantha

Stegiacantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Meruliaceae
Genus:	Stegiacantha; Maas Geest. (1966)
Type species
	Stegiacantha petaloides; (Lloyd) Maas Geest. (1966)
Synonyms
	Hydnum petaloides Lloyd (1913);

Stegiacantha is a fungal genus in the family Meruliaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Stegiacantha petaloides, found in Madagascar. This fungus was first described by American mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd in 1913 as Hydnum petaloides.^[2] Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus circumscribed Stegiacantha to contain the fungus in 1966.^[1]

Stegiacantha petaloides has an orbicular cap (in the shape of a flattened disc) measuring 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) in diameter, and a slender stipe. It has yellowish spines covering its hymenium.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Maas Geesteranus, R.A. (1966). "Notes on Hydnums, IV". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 69: 317–333.
^ ^a ^b Lloyd, Curtis Gates (1913). "Letter 48". Mycological Writings. 4: 9.

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[Maas_Geesteranus_1966-1] Maas Geesteranus, R.A. (1966). "Notes on Hydnums, IV". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 69: 317–333.

[Lloyd_1913-2] Lloyd, Curtis Gates (1913). "Letter 48". Mycological Writings. 4: 9.

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