Quadrispora

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Quadrispora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Cortinariaceae
Genus:
Quadrispora

Bougher & Castellano (1993)
Type species
Quadrispora oblongispora
(G.W.Beaton, Pegler & T.W.K.Young) Bougher & Castellano (1993)

Quadrispora is a genus of fungi in the family Cortinariaceae. [1]

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Taxonomy

The genus contained three species found in Australia [2] however in 2014 two of these were reclassified as Cortinarius species with Quadrispora oblongispora remaining as the only currently accepted species. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p.  587. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ↑ Bougher NL, Castellano MA (1993). "Delimitation of Hymenogaster sensu stricto and four new segregate genera" . Mycologia. 85 (2): 273–93. doi:10.2307/3760462. JSTOR   3760462.
  3. ↑ "Species Fungorum - Quadrispora". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2023-01-11.


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