Sidera (fungus)

Sidera
Sidera lenis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hymenochaetales
Family:	Repetobasidiaceae
Genus:	Sidera Miettinen & K.H.Larss. (2011)
Type species
Sidera lenis (P.Karst.) Miettinen (2011)
Species
S. lenis S. lowei S. lunata S. vulgaris

Sidera is a genus of crust fungi in the order Hymenochaetales. Circumscribed in 2011, the genus is characterized by species that have whitish resupinate fruit bodies, crystal rosettes on specialized hyphae, and sausage-shaped (allantoid) spores.^[1]