| Junghuhnia | |
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| Junghuhnia nitida | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Steccherinaceae |
| Genus: | Junghuhnia Corda (1842) |
| Type species | |
| Junghuhnia crustacea | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Junghuhnia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae). [3] It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842. [4] The generic name honours German-Dutch botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. [5]
The fruit bodies of Junghuhnia species are crust-like (rarely with a cap). They have a dimitic hyphal system and encrusted cystidia. Their spores are obovoid (egg-shaped) to cylindrical. [6]
As of June 2017 [update] , Index Fungorum accepts 36 species in Junghuhnia: [7]