Orbilia

Orbilia
Presumed Orbilia species growing on wet wood.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Subdivision:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Orbiliomycetes
Order:	Orbiliales
Family:	Orbiliaceae
Genus:	Orbilia Fr. (1849)
Type species
Orbilia leucostigma (Fr.) Fr. (1849)
species
approximately 34 species[1]

The Orbilia are a genus of fungi in the family Orbiliaceae. Anamorphs of this genus include the Arthrobotrys, Dactylella, Dicranidion, Dwayaangam, Helicoön, Monacrosporium, and Trinacrium.^[1] The taxon was established in 1849 by Fries to accommodate the species Peziza leucostigma.^[2] The mycologist Velenovský wrote articles describing species found in Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia).^[3][4] In 1951, Seaver recorded 20 species in North America^[5], and Dennis later described 9 species from Venezuela^[6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Bisby, Guy Richard; Ainsworth, G. C.; Kirk, P. M.; Aptroot, André (2001). Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi / by P. M. Kirk... [et al.]; with the assistance of A. Aptroot... [et al.]. Oxon: CAB International. p. 369. ISBN 0-85199-377-X. 
2. ^ Fries EM. (1849). Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae. Vol. 2. Stockholm, Leipzig. pp. 261–572.
3. ^ Velenovský J. (1934). Monographia Discomycetum Bohemiae. Vols. I and II. Publ. by the author, Prague. 436 p.
4. ^ Velenovský J. (1947). Novitates Mycologicae Novissimae. Opera Bot. Čech. 4: 1–158.
5. ^ Seaver FJ. (19510). The North American cup-fungi (inoperculates). Publ. by the author, New York. 428 p.
6. ^ Dennis RWG. (1970). Fungus flora of Venezuela and adjacent countries. Kew Bulletin Additional Series III. Cramer, Lehre. 531 pp.

External links

• Index Fungorum

• Several images of various species