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Agyrium
Sign in to saveAgyrium is a genus of saprophytic fungi in the family Agyriaceae. It probably evolved from a lichen ancestor, as it is closely related to many lichenized species of fungi.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderPertusariales
- FamilyAgyriaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 50
- With media
- 23
- Family
- Agyriaceae
- Collections
- NY, NEB, CUP, FH, MICH, BPI
- Recorded in
- United States, Sweden, Norway, Australia, France, Netherlands
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Description
- Species
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Agyrium is a genus of saprophytic fungi in the family Agyriaceae. It probably evolved from a lichen ancestor, as it is closely related to many lichenized species of fungi.
==Taxonomy== Agyrium was first proposed by Elias Magnus Fries in his 1821 work Systema Mycologicum, although the name was not published validly as a type species was not indicated; Fries published the name validly a year later in the second volume of the same work. The species Agyrium rufum was assigned as the type by Frederic Clements and Cornelius Lott Shear in 1931.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agyrium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.