Sebacina

Sebacina
Sebacina schweinitzii
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Species

Sebacina alutacea
Sebacina aureomagnifica
Sebacina confusa
Sebacina cystidiata
Sebacina dimitica
Sebacina epigaea
Sebacina flagelliformis
Sebacina guayanensis
Sebacina incrustans
Sebacina ocreata
Sebacina pileata
Sebacina pseudocandida
Sebacina schweinitzii
Sebacina sparassoidea
Sebacina tomentosa

Synonyms

Cristella Pat. (1887)
Soppittiella Massee (1892)
Tremellodendron G.F. Atk. (1902)
Atkinsonia Lloyd (1916)

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.