Fuligo

Fuligo
Fuligo septica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Physarales
Family:	Physaraceae
Genus:	Fuligo Haller (1768)

Fuligo is a widespread genus of plasmodial slime mold in the family Physaraceae. ^[1] These organisms are protozoans rather than fungi, but for historical reasons are sometimes treated as part of mycology.

Species

The following species are accepted by Species Fungorum: ^[2]

• Fuligo aurea (Penz.) Y. Yamam. (1998)
• Fuligo candida  [ pl ]Pers. (1796)
• Fuligo cinerea (Schwein.) Morgan (1896)
• Fuligo flava Pers. (1794)
• Fuligo gyrosa E. Jahn (1902)
• Fuligo intermedia T.Macbr. (1922)
• Fuligo leviderma H. Neubert, Nowotny & K. Baumann (1995)
• Fuligo luteonitens L.G. Krieglst. & Nowotny (1995)
• Fuligo lycoperdon (Bull.) Schumach. (1803)
• Fuligo megaspora Sturgis (1913)
• Fuligo muscorum Alb. & Schwein. (1805)
• Fuligo ochracea (Peck) Peck (1878)
• Fuligo plumbea Schumach. (1803)
• Fuligo rufa Pers. (1794)
• Fuligo septica (L.) F.H.Wigg (1780)
• Fuligo varians Sommerf. (1826)

References

1. Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN   1179-3163. S2CID   108783142.
2. "Fuligo". Species Fungorum . CAB International . Retrieved May 13, 2012.