Podostroma is a genus of fungi in the family Hypocreaceae, circumscribed by the Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1892 and containing eleven species (at least one being highly toxic) with a widespread distribution.[2][3]

Podostroma
Podostroma alutaceum, in James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797)
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Podostroma

P.Karst. (1892)
Type species
Podostroma leucopus
P.Karst. (1892)
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Hypocrea subgen. Podocrea Sacc. (1883)
  • Podocrea (Sacc.) Lindau (1897)

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References

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  1. ^ "Podostroma P. Karst. 1892". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
  2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 552. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ^ Karsten P. (1892). "Fragmenta mycologica XXXVIII". Hedwigia. 31: 292–96.
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