Cudonia

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Cudonia
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Cudonia confusa
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Rhytismatales
Family: Cudoniaceae
Genus: Cudonia
Fr. (1849)
Type species
Cudonia circinans
(Pers.) Fr. (1849)
Species

C. circinans
C. clandestida
C. confusa
C. grisea
C. helvelloides
C. japonica
C. osterwaldii
C. sichuanensis

Cudonia is a genus of fungi within the family Cudoniaceae. [1] The genus is widespread in temperate regions and its species are generally of unknown edibility. [2] [3] Cudonia circinans is poisonous and possibly deadly. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  2. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p.  182. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ↑ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 517. ISBN   978-0-7627-3109-1.
  4. ↑ Stevens, Michael Wood & Fred. "California Fungi: Cudonia circinans". www.mykoweb.com. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
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