Chionosphaera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Agaricostilbales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Basidiomycota Subdivisio: Pucciniomycotina Classis: Agaricostilbomycetes Ordo: Agaricostilbales

Familia: Chionosphaeraceae
Genus: Chionosphaera
Species: C. apobasidialis – C. cuniculicola – C. erythrinae – C. phylaciicola

Name

Chionosphaera D.E. Cox, 1976

Diagnosis: Basidiocarpi exigui, stipitati, pileati, parte superiore expansa, hymenio basidiali induta; basidia clavata, ex apice sporas in fulcris minutis suffultas producentes.

Type species: Chionosphaera apobasidialis D.E. Cox, 1976

Etymology: Greek chion, -os = snow; and sphaira = ball.

Synonyms

• Fibulostilbum Seifert & Bandoni, 1992

References

• D.E. Cox, Mycologia 68(3): 503 (1976)

• Cox, D.E. 1976: A new homobasidiomycete with anomalous basidia. Mycologia 68(3): 481–510.
• Seifert, K.A., Oberwinkler, F. & Bandoni, R. 1992. Notes on Stilbum vulgare and Fibulostilbum phylacicola gen. et sp. nov. (Atractiellales). Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 28(1–4): 213–217. Reference page. 

Links

• Chionosphaera in Index Fungorum.

• Chionosphaera in MycoBank.