''Baeospora'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

mushroom A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. ''Toadstool'' generally denotes one poisonous to humans. The standard for the name "mushroom" is ...

-producing

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. It is variously

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in the families

Tricholomataceae The Tricholomataceae are a large family of mushrooms within the Agaricales. Originally a classic " wastebasket taxon", the family included any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. t ...

Marasmiaceae The Marasmiaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi which have white spores. They mostly have tough stems and the capability of shrivelling up during a dry period and later recovering. The widely consumed edible fungus '' Lentinula edodes'', ...

, though as of 2007, these groups are undergoing revision. It has been found to fall into the "hydropoid clade" ('' Hydropus'' and allies), though no formal Linnaean taxon has been designated based on this classification. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist

Rolf Singer Rolf Singer (June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994) was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms (agarics) in the 20th century. After receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 1931 he worked ...

in 1938. The most recently described species, '' B. occidentalis'', is a snowbank fungus that was discovered in montane

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s of the western USA.

Species

References

Marasmiaceae Agaricales genera Taxa named by Rolf Singer {{Marasmiaceae-stub

Species

See also

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