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Oliveonia is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Species form thin, effused, corticioid basidiocarps with microscopically prominent cystidia and aseptate basidia producing basidiospores that give rise to secondary spores. All species are believed to be saprotrophic, most growing on dead wood. The genus was originally published by American mycologist L.S. Olive in 1957 as Heteromyces, but this is an illegitimate later homonym of the lichen genus Heteromyces Müll.Arg. (1889). The genus was renamed Oliveonia by Dutch mycologist M.A. Donk in 1958.
Patouillardina is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. The type and only species, P. cinerea, forms waxy, effused, corticioid basidiocarps with basidia that are diagonally septate. The species is presumed to be saprotrophic, growing on dead wood. It was originally described from Brazil, but appears to be pantropical, having also been recorded from Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and Tahiti.
Mycostilla is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. The type and only species, Mycostilla vermiformis, forms effused, gelatinous, crystalline or net-like basidiocarps on fallen conifer wood in Europe. The species was formerly placed in Stypella, but the latter genus is of uncertain disposition and appears unrelated to the Auriculariales. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, distinguishes Mycostilla from the morphologically similar genus Stypellopsis.
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- ↑ Roberts P (1998). "Hauerslevia: a new genus in the effused heterobasidiomycetes". Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 19 (4): 277–30.