Fistulinella
Encyclopedia
Fistulinella is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of bolete
Bolete
A bolete is a type of fungal fruiting body characterized by the presence of a pileus that is clearly differentiated from the stipe, with a spongy surface of pores on the underside of the pileus...

 fungi in the family Boletaceae
Boletaceae
Boletaceae are a family of mushrooms, primarily characterized by developing their spores in small pores on the underside of the mushroom, instead of gills, as are found in agarics. Nearly as widely distributed as agarics, they include the Cep or King Bolete , much sought after by mushroom hunters...

. The genus has a pantropical
Pantropical
In biogeography, a pantropical distribution one which covers tropical regions of all of the major continents, i.e. in Africa, in Asia and in the Americas. Examples include the plant genera Acacia and Bacopa....

 distribution, and contains 15 species. Fistulinella was circumscribed by German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings
Paul Christoph Hennings
Paul Christoph Hennings was a German mycologist and herbarium curator. He discovered the study of cryptogams and mushrooms as a volunteer at the botanical garden. Although circumstances initially prevented him to study in that area, he later returned to natural sciences and eventually rose to a...

 in 1901.

Species

Name Authority  Year Distribution
F. alfaroae Singer
Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....

 & L.D.Gómez
1991 Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

F. campinaranae Singer 1978 Brazil
F. cinereoalba Fulgenzi & T.W.Henkel 2010 Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

F. conica (Ravenel
Henry William Ravenel
Henry William Ravenel was a botanist of the United States. He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species...

) Pegler & T.W.K.Young
1981 USA, Mexico
F. gloeocarpa Pegler 1983 Martinique
Martinique
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...

F. guzmaniana Singer, J.García & L.D.Gómez 1991 Mexico
F. jamaicensis (Murrill) Singer
Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....

1983 Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, Troy
Troy, Texas
Troy is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,378 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Troy is located at ....

F. lutea Redeuilh & Soop 2006 (2007) New Zealand
F. major (R.Heim ex E.Horak) Redeuilh & Soop 2007
F. mexicana Guzmán 1974 Mexico
F. minor Guzmán 1974 Mexico
F. mollis Watling 1989 Australia
F. nivea (G.Stev.) Singer
Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....

1983 New Zealand
F. nothofagi (McNabb) Singer
Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....

1983 New Zealand
F. prunicolor Watling 1989 Australia
F. rodwayi Watling 1989 Australia (Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

)
F. staudtii Henn. 1901 Cameroon
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

F. venezuelae (Singer & Digilio) Singer 1978 Venezuela
F. violaceipora (G.Stev.) Pegler & T.W.K.Young 1981 New Zealand
F. viscida (McNabb) Singer
Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....

1978 New Zealand
F. wolfeana Singer & J.García 1991 Mexico
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK