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Queletia

Queletia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Queletia
Fr. (1872)
Type species
Queletia mirabilis
Fr. (1872)
Species

Q. andina
Q. mirabilis
Q. turcestanica


Q. andina
Q. mirabilis
Q. turcestanica

Queletia is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872.Fruit bodies of Queletia species are roughly spherical with a stipe-like base. They have a thin outer skin (peridium) and a harder inner skin that breaks into small pieces with age. The genus is named after French mycologist Lucien Quélet.



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