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Cystangium
Sign in to saveCystangium is a genus of fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus contains 32 species that are distributed in Australia and South America. Cystangium was described by American mycologists Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith in 1960.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderRussulales
- FamilyRussulaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 110
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Russulaceae
- Collections
- NY, MEL, OSC, FLAS
- Recorded in
- Australia, Chile
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Russulaceae
- Image
- Cystangium balpineum.png
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- Cystangium
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- taxon author citation
- Singer & A.H.Sm.
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Cystangium is a genus of fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus contains 32 species that are distributed in Australia and South America. Cystangium was described by American mycologists Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith in 1960.
The taxon is phylogenetically part of Russula and thus probably a synonym. However, it has not been formally synonymised yet and continues to be used by taxonomists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cystangium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.