Stegiacantha

Stegiacantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Meruliaceae
Genus: Stegiacantha
Maas Geest. (1966)
Type species
Stegiacantha petaloides
(Lloyd) Maas Geest. (1966)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hydnum petaloides Lloyd (1913)

Stegiacantha is a fungal genus in the family Meruliaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Stegiacantha petaloides, found in Madagascar. This fungus was first described by American mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd in 1913 as Hydnum petaloides.[2] Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus circumscribed Stegiacantha to contain the fungus in 1966.[1]

Stegiacantha petaloides has an orbicular cap (in the shape of a flattened disc) measuring 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) in diameter, and a slender stipe. It has yellowish spines covering its hymenium.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Maas Geesteranus, R.A. (1966). "Notes on Hydnums, IV". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 69: 317–333.
  2. 1 2 Lloyd, Curtis Gates (1913). "Letter 48". Mycological Writings. 4: 9.


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