Mesophellia

Mesophellia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hysterangiales
Family:	Mesophelliaceae
Genus:	Mesophellia Berk. (1857)
Type species
Mesophellia arenaria Berk. (1857)
Species
~15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Potoromyces Müll. bis ex Hollós (1902)

Mesophellia is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus contains about 15 species that are found in Australia.^[2] Mesophellia was circumscribed by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1857.^[3]

Species

• Mesophellia angustispora
• Mesophellia arenaria
• Mesophellia brevispora
• Mesophellia castanea
• Mesophellia clelandii
• Mesophellia glareoides
• Mesophellia glauca
• Mesophellia labyrinthina
• Mesophellia oleifera
• Mesophellia pallidospora
• Mesophellia parva
• Mesophellia parvispora
• Mesophellia rava
• Mesophellia rodwayi
• Mesophellia sabulosa
• Mesophellia trabalis
• Mesophellia tropica
• Mesophellia westresii

References

1. ^ "Mesophellia Berk. 1857". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=19216. Retrieved 2011-11-19. 
2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 419. ISBN 9780851998268. 
3. ^ Berkeley MJ. (1857). "On some new fungi". Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London 22: 129–31. 

External links

• Mesophellia in Index Fungorum.