Aeruginospora is a genus of fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was formerly placed in the family Tricholomataceae, but it was moved to the Hygrophoraceae in a recent review of the family based on its morphological similarity to Chrysomphalina and especially Haasiella.[1] It might be that Haasiella, which differs in spore color and ecology, is a junior synonym of Aeruginospora, but this has not yet been tested in a molecular phylogenetics study.[1] The genus, described by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel in 1908, currently contains two species found in New Zealand and Indonesia.[1][2][3] Six species formerly placed in Aeruginospora (A. foetens, A. hiemalis, A. hymenocephala, A. microspora, A. paupertina, and A. schulzeri) were transferred to the genus Camarophyllopsis.[1] A. furfuracea might also belong in Camarophyllopsis, but it has not yet been restudied.[1]

Aeruginospora
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Aeruginospora

Höhn. (1908)[1]
Type species
Aeruginospora singularis
Höhn. (1908)
Species

?A. furfuracea
A. singularis

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC, Cantrell SA, Boertmann D, et al. (2014). "Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 64 (1): 1–99. doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0. S2CID 220615978.
  2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ^ Horak, E. (1973). "Fungi agaricini Novaezelandiae I-V". Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. 43: 1–200 (see p. 125).