Aleuria

Aleuria is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus, A. aurantia.

Aleuria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Aleuria
Fuckel (1870)
Type species
Aleuria aurantia
(Pers.) Fuckel (1870)

Aleuria species are saprobes.

Description

  • This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and epigeous nature.
  • The ascospores are distinctly reticulate.
  • Species are typically (but not always) bright in color.
  • ascocarps are typically over 1 cm in diameter.

Species

  • Aleuria alpina
  • Aleuria amplissima
  • Aleuria applanata
  • Aleuria ascophanoides
  • Aleuria aurantia
  • Aleuria balfour-browneae
  • Aleuria boudieri
  • Aleuria carbonicola
  • Aleuria cestrica
  • Aleuria crassa
  • Aleuria crassiuscula
  • Aleuria crucibulum
  • Aleuria dalhousiensis
  • Aleuria exigua
  • Aleuria gigantea
  • Aleuria gonnermannii
  • Aleuria ingrica
  • Aleuria isochroa
  • Aleuria latispora
  • Aleuria lloydiana
  • Aleuria luteonitens
  • Aleuria marchica
  • Aleuria medogensis
  • Aleuria mellea
  • Aleuria membranacea
  • Aleuria mespiliformis
  • Aleuria michiganensis
  • Aleuria murreana
  • Aleuria nemorosa
  • Aleuria nucalis
  • Aleuria ollula
  • Aleuria pectinospora
  • Aleuria phaeospora
  • Aleuria reperta
  • Aleuria riparia
  • Aleuria saccardoi
  • Aleuria splendens
  • Aleuria sylvestris
  • Aleuria tectipus
  • Aleuria tuberculosa

References

  • C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5


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