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Genus of fungi

Ugola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Lyophyllaceae
Genus: Ugola
Adans.
Type species
Ugola physaroides
Species

U. baryana
U. physaroides
U. praticola

Ugola is a genus of fungi in the Lyophyllaceae family. The genus was first described scientifically by the French naturalist Michel Adanson in his 1763 Familles des Plantes. The three fungi in the genus are anamorphs of species of Asterophora, a genus of fungi that are parasitic on other mushrooms.

References

  1. Adanson M. (1763). Familles des plantes (in French). Vol. 2. Paris, France: Vincent. p. 5.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 711. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. Redhead SA, Seifert KA (2001). "Asterophora Ditmar ex Link 1809 versus Nyctalis Fries 1825, and the status of Ugola Adanson 1763". Taxon. 50 (1): 243–68. doi:10.2307/1224526. JSTOR 1224526. (subscription required)
Taxon identifiers
Ugola


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