Pyrrhoglossum

Pyrrhoglossum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Cortinariaceae
Genus: Pyrrhoglossum
Singer (1944)
Type species
Pyrrhoglossum pyrrhum
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Singer (1944)

Pyrrhoglossum is a genus of fungus in the Cortinariaceae family. The genus is widely distributed, especially in tropical regions, and contains 11 species.[1] It was circumscribed by American mycologist Rolf Singer in 1944.[2]

Species

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 586. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Singer R. (1944). "New genera of fungi. I". Mycologia. 36 (4): 358–58. doi:10.2307/3754752.


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