Sebacina | |
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Sebacina schweinitzii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Sebacinales |
Family: | Sebacinaceae |
Genus: | Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul. (1871) |
Type species | |
Sebacina incrustans (Pers.) Tul. & C.Tul. (1871)
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Species | |
Sebacina alutacea | |
Synonyms | |
Cristella Pat. (1887) |
Sebacina is a genus of fungi in the family Sebacinaceae. Its species are mycorrhizal, forming a range of associations with trees and other plants. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are produced on soil and litter, sometimes partly encrusting stems of living plants. The fruit bodies are cartilaginous to rubbery-gelatinous and variously effused (corticioid) to coral-shaped (clavarioid). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.