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Wilcoxina
Sign in to saveWilcoxina is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. It was circumscribed by Chin Yang and Richard Korf in 1985. Some species have been shown to produce the siderophore compound ferricrocin.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Pyronemataceae
- Collections
- FLAS, OSC, IBUNAM
- Recorded in
- Canada, United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pyronemataceae
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- taxon name
- Wilcoxina
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Wilcoxina mikolae
- taxon author citation
- Chin S. Yang & Korf
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Wilcoxina is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. It was circumscribed by Chin Yang and Richard Korf in 1985. Some species have been shown to produce the siderophore compound ferricrocin.
Species are cosmopolitan in distribution, and have been found growing with host plants in a wide variety on environments, such as nursery soils with high pH, mining sites with low pH and heavy metal contamination, natural forests and plantations, urban areas and peat soils. Wilcoxina species are mycorrhizal, and commonly infect a variety of conifers and deciduous trees such as Pinus, Betula, and Quercus species.
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