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Pseudohydnum
Sign in to savePseudohydnum is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically bracket-like and gelatinous, with or without a stipe, with a hydnoid (toothed) undersurface. The genus is widely distributed in both the northern and southern hemisphere, with thirteen species currently described and others awaiting description.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 41
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Exidiaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, F, IPA/SP, DUKE, UFPE, MICH
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Brasil, New Zealand, United States, Australia, Venezuela, Nepal
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pseudohydnum is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically bracket-like and gelatinous, with or without a stipe, with a hydnoid (toothed) undersurface. The genus is widely distributed in both the northern and southern hemisphere, with thirteen species currently described and others awaiting description.
== Taxonomy == The genus, first described by Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1868, has not yet been classified with certainty into a family. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed Pseudohydnum as a natural (monophyletic) taxon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudohydnum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.