Junghuhnia

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Junghuhnia
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Junghuhnia nitida
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Steccherinaceae
Genus: Junghuhnia
Corda (1842)
Type species
Junghuhnia crustacea
(Jungh.) Ryvarden (1972)
Synonyms [1]
  • LaschiaJungh. (1838) [2]
  • Aschersonia Endl. (1842)

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]

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Description

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]

Species

As of June 2017, Index Fungorum accepts 36 species in Junghuhnia: [7]

References

  1. "Junghuhnia Corda 1842". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  2. Junghuhn FW. (1838). Praemissa in floram cryptogamicam Javae insulae (in Latin). p. 74.
  3. Miettinen, Otto; Larsson, Ellen; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Larsson, Karl-Henrik (2012). "Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Cladistics. 28 (3): 251–270. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00380.x. PMID   34872189. S2CID   84643554.
  4. Corda ACJ. (1838). Anleitung zum Studium der Mykologie (in German). p. 195.
  5. Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
  6. 1 2 3 Nogueira-Melo, Georgea Santos; Lira, Carla Rejane de Sousa; Ryvarden, Leif; Gibertoni, Tatiana Baptista (2016). "Notes on Junghuhnia (Agaricomycetes) in Brazil" (PDF). Sociedade Botânica do Brasil. 1 (2): 266–270. doi: 10.1590/0102-33062015abb0242 .[ permanent dead link ]
  7. Kirk, P.M. "Species Fungorum (version 29th May 2017 . In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2017-06-02.[ permanent dead link ]
  8. Ipulet, P.; Ryvarden, L. (2005). "New and interesting polypores from Uganda". Synopsis Fungorum. 20: 87–99.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Spirin, W.A.; Zmitrovitch, I.; Malysheva, V. (2007). "New species in Junghuhnia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Annales Botanici Fennici. 44: 303–308.
  10. Ryvarden, L. (2007). "Studies in Neotropical polypores 23. New and interesting wood-inhabiting fungi from Belize". Synopsis Fungorum. 23: 32–50.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ryvarden, L. (1972). "A note on the genus Junghuhnia". Persoonia. 7 (1): 17–21.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. Blumenfeld, S.N.; Wright, J.E. (1984). "A new pileate species of Junghuhnia". Mycotaxon. 19: 471–478.
  13. Núñez, Maria; Ryvarden, Leif (1999). "New and interesting polypores from Japan" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 3: 107–121.
  14. 1 2 Lindblad, I.; Ryvarden, L. (1999). "Studies in neotropical polypores. 3. New and interesting Basidiomycetes (Poriales) from Costa Rica". Mycotaxon. 71: 335–359.
  15. Yuan, H.S.; Dai, Y.C. (2008). "Polypores from northern and central Yunnan Province, Southwestern China". Sydowia. 60 (1): 147–159.
  16. Yuan, H.S.; Wu, S.H. (2012). "Two new species of Junghuhnia (Polyporales) from Taiwan and a key to all species known worldwide of the genus". Sydowia. 64 (1): 137–145.