Podostroma

Podostroma
Podostroma alutaceum, in James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Sordariomycetes
Order:
Hypocreales
Family:
Hypocreaceae
Genus:
Podostroma

P.Karst. (1892)
Type species
Podostroma leucopus
P.Karst. (1892)
Species

see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Hypocrea subgen. Podocrea Sacc. (1883)
  • Podocrea (Sacc.) Lindau (1897)

Podostroma is a genus of fungi in the family Hypocreaceae, circumscribed by the Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1892 and containing eleven species (at least one being highly toxic) with a widespread distribution.[2][3]

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