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


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