Australicium is a genus of corticioid fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae. The genus was circumscribed by mycologists Kurt Hjortstam and Leif Ryvarden in 2002 to contain the type species, A. singulare, which is found in New Zealand.[1] The Venezuelan species A. cylindrosporum was added to the genus in 2005.[2]
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| Australicium singulare (G.Cunn.) Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2002)
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References
edit- ^ Hjortstam, Kurt; Ryvarden, Leif (2002). "Australicium (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales) a new genus for Corticium singulare G. Cunn". Synopsis Fungorum. 15: 18–21.
- ^ Ryvarden, Leif; Hjortstam, Kurt; Iturriaga, Teresa (2005). "Studies in corticioid fungi from Venezuela II (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales)". Synopsis Fungorum. 20: 42–78.
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