''Pterula'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...

in the ''

Pterulaceae The ''Pterulaceae'' are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Agaricales. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contained 99 species previously distributed among 12 genus, genera. More recent data from molecular phylogenetic reconst ...

'' family. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in

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regions, and contains about 50 species. One such species, ''Pterula sp. 82168'', has yielded potential antifungal antibiotic properties.

Taxonomy

A major reclassification of the ''

'' family occurred in occurred in 2020 and ''Pterula'' was reclassified based on

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analysis and split into ''Pterula'', ''

Myrmecopterula ''Myrmecopterula'' is a genus of fungi in the family Pterulaceae. Basidiocarps are clavarioid and are associated with ant domestication by members of the genus ''Apterostigma''. Taxonomy ''Myrmecopterula'' was created in 2020 when the ''Pteru ...

Pterulicium ''Pterulicium'' is a genus of fungi in the Pterulaceae family. The genus was previously monotypic, containing the single species ''Pterulicium xylogenum'', found in southeast Asia. However in 2020 a major reclassification of the Pterulaceae fam ...

and

Phaeopterula ''Phaeopterula'' is a genus of fungi in the family ''Pterulaceae''. Basidiocarps are clavarioid and resemble species of ''Pterula''. Taxonomy This genus was originally described by the German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings in 1905 but most ...

'' genera by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra,

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and Gareth W. Griffith.

Species

Species Fungorum ''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (Binomial nomenclature, scientific names) in the fungus Kingdom (biology), kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partn ...

accepted 67 species of ''Pterula''.

References

External links

* Pterulaceae Agaricales genera Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries {{Agaricales-stub