Ertzia

Ertzia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Lepidostromatales
Family: Lepidostromataceae
Genus: Ertzia
B.P.Hodk. & Lücking (2014)
Species:
E. akagerae
Binomial name
Ertzia akagerae
(Eb.Fisch., Ertz, Killmann & Sérus.) B.P.Hodk. & Lücking (2014)
Synonyms[1]
  • Multiclavula akagerae Eb.Fisch., Ertz, Killmann & Sérus. (2007)
  • Lepidostroma akagerae (Eb.Fisch., Ertz, Killmann & Sérus.) Ertz, Eb.Fisch., Killmann, Sérus. & Lawrey (2008)

Ertzia[2][3] is a monospecific genus in the family Lepidostromataceae (the only family within the fungal order Lepidostromatales).[4] The sole species is Ertzia akagerae. The genus was circumscribed in 2014 by Brendan Hodkinson and Robert Lücking. Ertzia is distinguished from all other lichenized clavarioid fungi (Multiclavula (Cantharellales), Lepidostroma (Lepidostromatales), and Sulzbacheromyces (Lepidostromatales)) by having a microsquamulose thallus that forms contiguous glomerules (reminiscent of a 'Botrydina-type' thallus) with a cortex of jigsaw puzzle-shaped cells.[2] Ertzia akagerae grows on soil in the African tropics.

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