Xerula
| Xerula | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Xerula pudens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
Species
[edit]- Xerula americana
- Xerula amygdaliformis
- Xerula asprata
- Xerula aureocystidiata
- Xerula australis
- Xerula caussei
- Xerula chiangmaiae
- Xerula fraudulenta
- Xerula furfuracea[a]
- Xerula globospora
- Xerula hispida
- Xerula hongoi
- Xerula hygrophoroides
- Xerula incognita
- Xerula japonica
- Xerula kuehneri
- Xerula limonispora
- Xerula longipes
- Xerula mediterranea
- Xerula megalospora
- Xerula oreina
- Xerula orientalis
- Xerula pseudoradicata
- Xerula pudens
- Xerula raphanipes
- Xerula renati
- Xerula rubrobrunnescens
- Xerula rugosoceps
- Xerula setulosa
- Xerula sinopudens
- Xerula subnigra
- Xerula vinocontusa
- Xerula xeruloides
References
[edit]Footnotes
Citations
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
External links
[edit]- "Xerula Maire". Atlas of Living Australia.