Myxarium
Sign in to saveMyxarium is a genus of fungi in the family Hyaloriaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are gelatinous and effused or pustular. The genus is cosmopolitan. All species grow on dead wood or dead herbaceous stems.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Myxarium is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to fungi, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth and species.
Vinony files it under Agaricomycetes genera and Auriculariales.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAuriculariales
- FamilyHyaloriaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- Family
- Exidiaceae
- Collections
- UFPE, MIN, IPA/SP, MNHN, BPI, O
- Recorded in
- Brasil, United States, Madagascar, Australia, Norway, Malawi, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hyaloriaceae
- Image
- Crystal Brain Fungus (Exidia nucleata) - geograph.org.uk - 1000447.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- taxon name
- Myxarium
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Myxarium nucleatum
- Commons category
- Myxarium
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- History
- Current status
- References
Myxarium is a genus of fungi in the family Hyaloriaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are gelatinous and effused or pustular. The genus is cosmopolitan. All species grow on dead wood or dead herbaceous stems.
==Taxonomy== ===History=== The genus was originally described by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth in 1833 based on the visible white inclusions in the basidiocarps of the type species, Myxarium nucleatum, which he interpreted as spores (they are in fact crystals of calcium oxalate). The genus was synonymized with Exidia by subsequent authors, until revived by Dutch mycologist M.A. Donk in 1966. The revised concept of Myxarium emphasized the microscopic presence of septate basidia with enucleate stalk cells ("myxarioid" basidia), a feature absent in Exidia. Additional species were added to the genus on this basis.
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