Baeospora

Baeospora
Baeospora myosura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Cyphellaceae
Genus:	Baeospora Singer (1938)
Type species
Baeospora myosura (Fr.) Singer (1938)

Baeospora is a genus of fungi in the family Cyphellaceae.[1] Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are agarics. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1938.[2] The most recently described species, B. occidentalis, is a snowbank fungus that was discovered in montane coniferous forests of the western USA.[3]

Species

• B. brunneipes
• B. cristobalensis
• B. curtipes
• B. mundula
• B. myosura
• B. familia
• B. myriadophylla
• B. occidentalis
• B. pallida
• B. pleurotoides
• B. rubrinigrescens
• B. stenophylla
• B. violaceifolia

References

1. Vizzini A, Consiglio G, Marchetti M, Borovička J, Campo E, Cooper JA, Lebeuf R, Ševčíková H. (2022). "New data in Porotheleaceae and Cyphellaceae: epitypification of Prunulus scabripes Murrill, the status of Mycopan Redhead, Moncalvo & Vilgalys and a new combination in Pleurella Horak emend". Mycol Progress. 21 (4): 44. Bibcode:2022MycPr..21...44V. doi:10.1007/s11557-022-01795-z.
2. Singer R. (1938). "Notes sur quelques Basidiomycetes". Revue de Mycologie (in French). 3: 187–99.
3. Hutchinson LJ, Kropp BR, Hausner G (2012). "Baeospora occidentalis, a new snowbank agaric from western North America". Mycoscience. 53 (2): 139–43. doi:10.1007/s10267-011-0142-3. S2CID 85132139.