Geopora

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Geopora
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Geopora cooperi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Geopora
Harkn. (1885)
Type species
Geopora cooperi
Harkn. (1885)
Synonyms [1]

Peziza subgen. Sepultaria Cooke (1879)
Sepultaria(Cooke) Boud. (1885)
Pseudohydnotrya E.Fisch. (1897)

Geopora is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the family Pyronemataceae, currently with 13 described species. [2] The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Harvey Willson Harkness in 1885. [3] Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions indicate that the cup-like apothecial Geopora should better be placed back in a separate genus, Sepultaria. [4] Geopora would then only comprise Geopora cooperi and its close relatives.

Species

Species include:

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References

  1. "Geopora Harkn. 1885". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 280. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. Harkness HW. (1885). "Fungi of the pacific coast". Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences. 1 (1): 159–77.
  4. Guevara-Guerrero G, Stielow B, Tamm H, Cázares-Gonzalez E, Göker M (2011). "Genea mexicana, sp. nov., and Geopora tolucana, sp. nov., new hypogeous Pyronemataceae from Mexico, and the taxonomy of Geopora reevaluated". Mycological Progress. 11 (3): 711–724. doi:10.1007/s11557-011-0781-y. S2CID   16348668.
  5. Southworth D, Frank JL (2011). "Linking mycorrhizas to sporocarps: a new species, Geopora cercocarpi, on Cercocarpus ledifolius (Rosaceae)". Mycologia. 103 (6): 1194–1200. doi:10.3852/11-053. PMID   21700635. S2CID   5273895.