Queletia

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Queletia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Agaricaceae
Genus:
Queletia

Fr. (1872)
Type species
Queletia mirabilis
Fr. (1872)

Queletia is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872. [1] Fruit bodies of Queletia species are sequestrate with a thin outer skin (peridium) and a harder inner skin that breaks into small pieces with age. [2] The genus is named after French mycologist Lucien Quélet (1832–1899). [3]

The genus contains three species: [4]

Former species: [4]


See also

References

  1. ↑ Fries E. (1872). "Queletia, novum Lycoperdaceorum genus. Accedit nova Gyromitrae species". Öfvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. (in Latin). 28 (2): 171–4.
  2. ↑ Johnson MM, Coker WS, Couch JN (1974) [First published 1928]. The Gasteromycetes of the Eastern United States and Canada. New York, New York: Dover Publications. p. 56. ISBN   978-0-486-23033-7.
  3. ↑ Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A handbook to the larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive. p. 52.
  4. 1 2 "Species Fungorum - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 18 September 2022.



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