Heteroacanthella is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid (effused, patch-forming) with smooth surfaces and occur on dead, attached wood or on lichens.[1] They are microscopically distinctive in having acanthoid (spiny) basidia with just one or two large sterigmata producing large, globose to ellipsoid basidiospores.[2] The genus occurs worldwide, though individual species may be localized.[2] Three species have been described to date.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Auriculariales |
| Genus: | Heteroacanthella Oberw. (1990) |
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| Heteroacanthella variabilis Oberw. & Langer (1990)
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References
edit- ^ a b Zamora J, Perez-Ortega S, Rico V (2014). "Heteroacanthella ellipsospora sp. nov., the first lichenicolous basidiomycete with acanthoid basidia". The Lichenologist. 46 (1): 17–23. doi:10.1017/S0024282913000765.
- ^ a b Roberts P. (1999). Rhizoctonia-forming fungi. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-900347-69-3.