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Junghuhnia
Sign in to saveJunghuhnia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae). It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842. The generic name honours German-Dutch botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Steccherinaceae
- Collections
- INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), NY, MEL, TENN-F, BPI, IAP
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Brazil, Australia, United States, Guyana, Mayotte, Canada, Norway
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Encyclopedic overview
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Junghuhnia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae). It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842. The generic name honours German-Dutch botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn.
==Description== The fruit bodies of Junghuhnia species are crust-like (rarely with a cap). They have a dimitic hyphal system and encrusted cystidia. Their spores are obovoid (egg-shaped) to cylindrical.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Junghuhnia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.