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Steccherinum

Steccherinum
Steccherinum ochraceum 82227.jpg
Steccherinum ochraceum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Steccherinaceae
Genus: Steccherinum
Gray (1821)
Type species
Steccherinum ochraceum
(Pers.) Gray (1821)
Synonyms
  • Etheirodon Banker (1902)
  • Leptodon Quél. (1886)
  • Mycoleptodon Pat. (1897)
  • Odontia Fr. (1835)
  • Odontina Pat. (1874)

Steccherinum is a widely distributed genus of hydnoid crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.

Steccherinum was circumscribed by Samuel Frederick Gray in his 1821 work A Natural Arrangement of British Plants.

Steccherinum fungi have a range of fruit body morphologies, including resupinate (crust-like), effused-reflexed (crust-like with the edges extending outwards to form caps), or pileate with either a stipe or only a stipe-like base.

A 2008 estimate placed 33 species in Steccherinum.


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