Mucronella

This article is about the genus of fungus. For the bryozoan genus, see Mucronella (bryozoan).

Mucronella
Mucronella calva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Clavariaceae
Genus:	Mucronella Fr. (1874)
Type species
Mucronella calva (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. (1874)
Synonyms[1]
Mucronia Fr. (1849) Myxomycidium Massee (1901)

Mucronella is a genus of fungi in the Clavariaceae family. The type species was originally named Hydnum calvum in a collaborative effort by the German botanist Johannes Baptista von Albertini and the American Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1805;^[2] Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries later transferred the species to the newly described Mucronella in 1874.^[3]

Species

• Mucronella albidula
• Mucronella belalongensis
• Mucronella bresadolae
• Mucronella calva
• Mucronella flava
• Mucronella pendula
• Mucronella polyporacea
• Mucronella pusilla
• Mucronella styriaca
• Mucronella subalpina

References

1. ^ "Mucronella Fr. 1874". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. 
2. ^ Albertini JB, Schweinitz LD. (1805) (in Latin). Conspectus Fungorum in Lusatiae superioris. p. 271. 
3. ^ Fries EM. (1874) (in Latin). Hymenomycetes Europaei. p. 629. 

External links

• Mucronella in Index Fungorum.