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Pseudohiatula

Pseudohiatula
2017-06-11 Pseudohiatula irrorata (Pat.) Singer 745851.jpg
Pseudohiatula irrorata in Columbia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae
Genus: Pseudohiatula
(Singer) Singer (1938)
Type species
Pseudohiatula cyatheae
Singer (1938)
Synonyms
  • Mycena subgen. Pseudo-Hiatula Singer (1936)
  • Mycena subgen. Pseudohiatula Singer (1936)

Pseudohiatula is a genus of fungi in the family Physalacriaceae. It was originally described as a subgenus of Mycena by the mycologist Rolf Singer before he moved to its own genus two years later. It was formerly thought to belong in the family Tricholomataceae, but a molecular phylogenetics study found it to be more closely The genus Cyptotrama in the Physalacriaceae. Rolf Singer had previously hypothesized these two genera to be closely related based on morpological features in 1986. It contains five species that are widely distributed in tropical areas.



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