Phellorinia

Phellorinia
Phellorinia herculeana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Phelloriniaceae
Genus: Phellorinia
Berk. (1843)
Type species
Phellorinia herculeana
(Pers.) Kreisel (1961)
Synonyms[1]

Xylopodium Mont. (1845)
Areolaria Kalchbr. (1883)
Cyphellomyces Speg. (1906)

Phellorinia is a genus of fungi in the Phelloriniaceae family of the Agaricales order. The genus is monotypic, and contains the single species Phellorinia herculeana, described by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1843 as P. inquinans.[2]

References

  1. "Phellorinia Berk. 1843". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  2. Berkeley MJ. (1843). "Enumeration of fungi, collected by Herr Zeyher in Uitenhage". London Journal of Botany. 2: 507–27.
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