Lachnella

Genus of fungi

Lachnella
Lachnella alboviolascens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Niaceae
Genus:
Lachnella

Fr.
Type species
Lachnella alboviolascens
(Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. (1849)

Lachnella is a genus of cyphelloid fungi in the Niaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains six species.[1]

The tiny fruiting bodies (up to about 2 mm across) are cup-shaped or disc-shaped and are densely edged with long white hairs. At most they may have a very short stem, but generally none at all. They can be found all year round on sticks, stalks and sometimes on bark. They are resistant to desiccation, rolling up into a tough closed ball to protect the fertile surface when dry weather comes.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ^ Knudsen, Thomas; Vesterholt, J., eds. (2018). Funga Nordica Agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, cyphelloid and gasteroid genera. Copenhagen: Nordsvamp. p. 308. ISBN 978-87-983961-3-0.
  3. ^ Læssøe, H.; Petersen, Jens (2019). Fungi of Temperate Europe. Princeton University Press. p. 1086. ISBN 9780691180373.


Taxon identifiers
Lachnella
  • Wikidata: Q6468497
  • Wikispecies: Lachnella
  • AusFungi: 60015155
  • CoL: 59TM
  • Fungorum: 17888
  • GBIF: 7981147
  • iNaturalist: 374837
  • MycoBank: 17888
  • NBN: NHMSYS0001485807
  • NCBI: 139084
  • NZOR: 5fd95114-7125-43c6-a2c0-6303f1cd5035
  • Open Tree of Life: 663181
  • WoRMS: 988522


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