Auritella
Auritella Matheny & Bougher 2006, in Matheny & Bougher, Mycological Progress, 5, 2-17 (2006).
Etymology: golden tissue or golden web, in reference to the ochraceous hymenium
Diagnosis: Basidiomata agaricoid or sequestrate; usually tough; pileus squarrose, squamulose or tomentose; cortina present or absent; context not reddening; cheilocystidia elongated, usually thin-walled, often >50-μm long, when present; basidia necropigmented; basidiospores smooth, very pale brown, ochraceous-buff, or ochraceous tawny in water and weak akaline mounts; apiculus indistinct, rarely distinct. Associated with Myrtaceae and Fabaceae.
Index Fungorum Number: IF530281
Type Species: Auritella dolichocystis Matheny, Trappe & Bougher ex Matheny & Bougher 2006, in Matheny & Bougher, Mycological Progress, 5, 2-17 (2006).
Species:
Auritella arenicolens (Cleland) Matheny & Bougher 2006,
Auritella aureoplumosa (Watling) Matheny & Bougher 2006
Auritella brunnescens Matheny & Bougher 2017,
Auritella chamaecephala Matheny, O.K. Mill. & Bougher ex Matheny & Bougher 2006
Auritella dolichocystis Matheny, Trappe & Bougher ex Matheny & Bougher 2006,
Auritella erythroxa (De Seynes) Matheny & Bougher 2006
Auritella foveata C.K. Pradeep & Matheny 2012
Auritella fulvella Matheny & Bougher 2017, (also see Species Fungorum: Auritella fulvella); Inocybaceae
Auritella geoaustralis Matheny & Bougher 2006
Auritella hispida Matheny & T.W. Henkel 2017
Auritella robusta Matheny, Bougher & G.M. Gates 2017
Auritella serpentinocystis Matheny, Trappe & Bougher ex Matheny & Bougher 2006
Auritella spiculosa Matheny & T.W. Henkel 2017
Reference:
Matheny, P. B., & Bougher, N. L. (2006). The new genus Auritella from Africa and Australia (Inocybaceae, Agaricales): molecular systematics, taxonomy and historical biogeography. Mycological Progress, 5, 2-17.
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