Sclerogaster

Sclerogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Geastrales
Family:	Sclerogastraceae Locq. ex P.M.Kirk (2008)
Genus:	Sclerogaster R.Hesse (1891)
Type species
Sclerogaster lanatus Mattir. (1900)

The Sclerogastraceae are a family of fungi in the order Geastrales. The family contains the single genus Sclerogaster, which contains 10 species found in Europe and America.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by botanist Rudolf Hesse in 1891.^[2]

Species

• Sclerogaster candidus
• Sclerogaster columellatus
• Sclerogaster compactus
• Sclerogaster gastrosporioides
• Sclerogaster hysterangioides
• Sclerogaster luteocarneus
• Sclerogaster minor
• Sclerogaster pacificus
• Sclerogaster siculus
• Sclerogaster xerophilus

References

1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 623. ISBN 9780851998268.
2. Hesse R. (1891). Hypogaeen Deutschlands. 1. Die Hymenogastreen (in German). 1.

External links

• Sclerogaster in Index Fungorum