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