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Kretzschmaria

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Genus of fungi

Kretzschmaria
Wood decay caused by Kretzschmaria deusta infection
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Xylariales
Family: Xylariaceae
Genus: Kretzschmaria
Fr. (1849)
Type species
Kretzschmaria clavus
(Fr.) Sacc. (1883)
Synonyms

Kretzschmaria is a genus of fungi in the family Xylariaceae. The genus, circumscribed by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1849, contains about 30 species that collectively have a widespread distribution. Fossils of Kretzschmaria have been found in the 12 million year old rocks from central England.

Species

References

  1. Fries EM (1849). Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae. p. 409.
  2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  3. Kirk MP, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. Pound, Matthew J.; Nuñez Otaño, Noelia B.; Romero, Ingrid C.; Lim, Michael; Riding, James B.; O’Keefe, Jennifer M. K. (2022). "The fungal ecology of the Brassington Formation (Middle Miocene) of Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and a new method for palaeoclimate reconstruction". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.947623. ISSN 2296-701X.
Taxon identifiers
Kretzschmaria


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