Aphanobasidium Explained

Aphanobasidium is a genus of corticioid or crust fungi in the Radulomycetaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains several species.^[1] This genus was formally considered to be part of the Pterulaceae family.

A major reclassification of the Pterulaceae family occurred in 2020 and the genera Aphanobasidium, Radulomyces and Radulotubus were moved to a new family, Radulomycetaceae by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith.^{[2] [3]}

Species

, Species Fungorum accepted 18 species of Aphanobasidium.^[4]

• Aphanobasidium acanthophoenicis
• Aphanobasidium albidum
• Aphanobasidium alpestre
• Aphanobasidium aurobisporum
• Aphanobasidium aurora
• Aphanobasidium biapiculatum
• Aphanobasidium bicorne
• Aphanobasidium bisterigmaticum
• Aphanobasidium bourdotii
• Aphanobasidium curvisporum
• Aphanobasidium filicinum
• Aphanobasidium gloeocystidiatum
• Aphanobasidium paludicola
• Aphanobasidium pseudotsugae
• Aphanobasidium rubi
• Aphanobasidium sphaerosporum
• Aphanobasidium subcalceum
• Aphanobasidium subnitens

Notes and References

1. Book: Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA . Dictionary of the Fungi . 10th . CABI . Wallingford . 2008. 41. 978-0-85199-826-8.
2. Leal-Dutra . Caio A. . Griffith . Gareth W. . Neves . Maria Alice . McLaughlin . David J. . McLaughlin . Esther G. . Clasen . Lina A. . Dentinger . Bryn T. M. . December 2020 . Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov. . IMA Fungus . en . 11 . 1 . 2 . 10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6 . 2210-6359 . 7325140 . 32617254 . free .
3. Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov. . 2020 . 7325140 . Leal-Dutra . C. A. . Griffith . G. W. . Neves . M. A. . McLaughlin . D. J. . McLaughlin . E. G. . Clasen . L. A. . Dentinger . B. T. . Ima Fungus . 11 . 2 . 10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6 . 32617254 . free .
4. Web site: Species Fungorum – Aphanobasidium . 10 July 2022 . www.speciesfungorum.org.