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Xerula
Xerula pudens
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae
Genus: Xerula
Maire
Type species
Xerula longipes
(P. Kumm.) Maire

Xerula is a genus of gilled mushrooms in the family Physalacriaceae.

This genus has been recorded as a favored food of adults of the pleasing fungus beetle Tritoma mimetica,[1] but the mushroom species in question might today be placed in Hymenopellis which contains the favorite food of adult T.mimetica.[2]

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Footnotes

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Citations

  1. Goodrich, Michael A. and Springer, Charles A. (1999): The Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) of Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 25: 53-71.Fulltext
  2. Goodrich, Michael A. & Skelley, Paul E. (1994): Fungal host records for species of Tritoma (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) of America North of Mexico. Entomol. News 105: 289-294. PDF fulltext
  3. Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
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