Claussenomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Helotiaceae. Species grow as saprophytes on decaying and decorticated wood, cones, or sap. Fruitbodies are turbinate (having the shape of an inverted cone) to pulvinate (shaped like a cushion), measuring up to 0.6 mm in both height and diameter. The flesh has an elastic to gelatinous texture.[1]
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| Claussenomyces prasinulus growing on Australian blackwood | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Leotiomycetes |
| Order: | Helotiales |
| Family: | Helotiaceae |
| Genus: | Claussenomyces Kirschst. (1923) |
| Type species | |
| Claussenomyces jahnianus Kirschst. (1923)
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The genus name of Claussenomyces is in honour of Peter Heinrich Claussen (1877-1959), a German doctor and botanist (Mycology), Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Marburg.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Wilhelm Kirschstein in Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg Vol.65 on page 122 in 1923.
Species
editA 2008 estimate placed 19 species in the genus.[3] As of January 2015[update], Index Fungorum lists 16 species of Claussenomyces:[4]
- Claussenomyces atrovirens
- Claussenomyces australis
- Claussenomyces canariensis
- Claussenomyces clavatus
- Claussenomyces dacrymycetoideus
- Claussenomyces imperspicuus
- Claussenomyces jahnianus
- Claussenomyces kirschsteinianus
- Claussenomyces luteoviridis
- Claussenomyces olivaceus
- Claussenomyces pini
- Claussenomyces pleomorphicus
- Claussenomyces prasinulus
- Claussenomyces pusillus
- Claussenomyces simplex
- Claussenomyces tympanoides
References
edit- ^ Medardi G. (2007). "Overview of the genus Claussenomyces and a description of Italian collections" (PDF). Czech Mycology. 59 (1): 101–9. doi:10.33585/cmy.59112. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-20. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ^ Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 22nd December 2014). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2015-01-20.