Pterulaceae

The Pterulaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contained 99 species previously distributed among 12 genera.[1] More recent data from molecular phylogenetic reconstruction showed that members of the genus Parapterulicium are unrelated to Pterulaceae and also polyphyletic. A new genus Baltazaria was created and both genera were moved to Russulales, to families Lachnocladiaceae and Peniophoraceae respectively.[2]

Pterulaceae
Pterula subulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Pterulaceae

Corner (1970)
Type genus
Pterula
Fr. (1825)
Genera

A major reappraisal of Pterulaceae was recently published by Leal-Dutra et al.,[3] creating the new genus Myrmecopterula, to encompass those species cultivated by Apterostigma ants in the neotropics,[4] and resurrecting the genus Phaeopterula to accommodate species with darker basidiomes. The genus Deflexula was merged into Pterulicium. Additionally, the genera Aphanobasidium, Radulomyces and Radulotubus were removed to a new family, Radulomycetaceae.[3]

See also

References
  1. Kirk MP, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 576. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Leal-Dutra, Caio A.; Neves, Maria Alice; Griffith, Gareth W.; Reck, Mateus A.; Clasen, Lina A.; Dentinger, Bryn T. M. (2018-07-31). "Reclassification of Parapterulicium Corner (Pterulaceae, Agaricales), contributions to Lachnocladiaceae and Peniophoraceae (Russulales) and introduction of Baltazaria gen. nov". MycoKeys. 37 (37): 39–56. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.37.26303. ISSN 1314-4057. PMC 6081468. PMID 30116138.
  3. Leal-Dutra, Caio A.; Griffith, Gareth W.; Neves, Maria Alice; McLaughlin, David J.; McLaughlin, Esther G.; Clasen, Lina A.; Dentinger, Bryn T. M. (2020-01-30). "Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov". IMA Fungus. 11 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6. ISSN 2210-6359.
  4. Dentinger, Bryn T. M.; Lodge, D. Jean; Munkacsi, Andrew B.; Desjardin, Dennis E.; McLaughlin, David J. (2009). "Phylogenetic Placement of an Unusual Coral Mushroom Challenges the Classic Hypothesis of Strict Coevolution in the Apterostigma Pilosum Group Ant–Fungus Mutualism". Evolution. 63 (8): 2172–2178. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00697.x. ISSN 1558-5646. PMID 19453731.


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