Mesophellia

Mesophellia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hysterangiales
Family:	Mesophelliaceae
Genus:	Mesophellia Berk. (1857)
Type species
Mesophellia arenaria Berk. (1857)
Species
~15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Potoromyces Müll. bis ex Hollós (1902)

Mesophellia is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus contains about 15 species that are found in Australia.[2] Mesophellia was circumscribed by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1857.[3]

Species

• Mesophellia angustispora
• Mesophellia arenaria
• Mesophellia brevispora
• Mesophellia castanea
• Mesophellia clelandii
• Mesophellia glareoides
• Mesophellia glauca
• Mesophellia labyrinthina
• Mesophellia oleifera
• Mesophellia pallidospora
• Mesophellia parva
• Mesophellia parvispora
• Mesophellia rava
• Mesophellia rodwayi
• Mesophellia sabulosa
• Mesophellia trabalis
• Mesophellia tropica
• Mesophellia westresii

References

1. "Mesophellia Berk. 1857". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
3. Berkeley MJ. (1857). "On some new fungi". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 22 (2): 129–31. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1856.tb00086.x.

External links

• Mesophellia in Index Fungorum