Amphistereum

Amphistereum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Auriculariales
Family: Auriculariaceae
Genus: Amphistereum
Spirin & V. Malysheva (2017)
Type species
Amphistereum schrenkii
(Burt) Spirin & V. Malysheva (2017)
Species
  • Amphistereum leveilleanum

Amphistereum is a genus of fungi in the family Auriculariaceae.[1] Species produce cupulate to effused, leathery basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on wood. Microscopically, fruit bodies have a dimitic hyphal system. The genus is currently only known from North and South America.[2]

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