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Humaria

Humaria is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. The genus is widespread in northern temperate areas, and contains 16 species. The genus was circumscribed by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.

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Humaria
Humaria hemisphaerica
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Humaria
Fuckel (1870)
Type species
Humaria leucoloma
(Hedw.) Sacc. (1889)
Synonyms1

Leucopezis Clem. (1909)2
Mycolachnea Maire (1937)3

Humaria is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. The genus is widespread in northern temperate areas, and contains 16 species.4 The genus was circumscribed by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.5

Species

  • Humaria aurantia
  • Humaria haemastigma
  • Humaria hemisphaerica
  • Humaria irregularis
  • Humaria menieri
  • Humaria novozeelandica
  • Humaria ollaris
  • Humaria solsequia
  • Humaria stromella
  • Humaria velenovskyi
  • Humaria violascens
References

References

  1. "Humaria Fuckel 1870". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
  2. Clements FE. (1909). The Genera of Fungi (1st ed.). pp. 90, 175.
  3. Maire R. (1937). "Fungi Catalaunici: Series altera. Contributions a l'étude de la flore mycologique de la Catalogne". Publicacions del Instituto Botánico, Barcelona (in French). 3 (4): 25.
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  5. Fuckel L. (1870). "Symbolae mycologicae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Pilze". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German). 23–24: 320.