Queletia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Battarreaceae
- Genus
- Queletia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Queletia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Queletia
Queletia is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872. Fruit bodies of Queletia species are sequestrate with a thin outer skin (peridium) and a harder inner skin that breaks into small pieces with age. The genus is named after French mycologist Lucien Quélet (1832–1899).
The genus contains three species:
- Queletia andina J.E. Wright (1989)
- Queletia mirabilis Fr. (1872) (Type species)
- Queletia turcestanica M.Petrov (1929)
Former species:
- Q. laceratum (Ehrenb. ex Fr.) S. Ahmad (1941) now Schizostoma laceratum
- Q. mundkurii S. Ahmad (1941) now Schizostoma mundkurii