Schenella

Schenella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Geastrales
Family: Geastraceae
Genus: Schenella
T.Macbr.
Type species
Schenella simplex
T.Macbr.
Species

Schenella microspora
Schenella pityophila
Schenella romana
Schenella simplex

Synonyms
  • Pyrenogaster Malençon & Riousset

Schenella is a genus of fungi in the family Geastraceae. The widely distributed genus contains four species. The genus was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride in 1911. Pyrenogaster, described in 1977, is a later synonym.

References

  1. 1 2 "Schenella T. Macbr. 1911". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
  2. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 618. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ↑ Macbride TH (1911). "A new genus of Myxomycetes". Mycologia. 3 (1): 39–40. doi:10.2307/3753654. JSTOR 3753654.
  4. ↑ Malençon G, Riousset L (1977). "Pyrenogaster pithyopilus G. Malençon et L. Riousset, nouveau genre et nouvelle espèce de Gastéromycète (Geastraceae)". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (in French). 93 (3): 289–311.
  5. ↑ Estrada-Torres A, Gaither TW, Miller DL, Lado C, Keller HW (2005). "The myxomycete genus Schenella: morphological and DNA sequence evidence for synonymy with the gasteromycete genus Pyrenogaster". Mycologia. 97 (1): 139–149. doi:10.3852/mycologia.97.1.139. PMID 16389965.