Cystangium

Cystangium is a genus of fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus contains 32 species that are distributed in Australia and South America.[1] Cystangium was described by American mycologists Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith in 1960.[2]

Cystangium
Cystangium balpineum - White Sessile Truffle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Russulales
Family:
Russulaceae
Genus:
Cystangium

Singer & A.H.Sm. (1960)
Type species
Cystangium sessile
(Massee & Rodway ex Rodway) Singer & A.H.Sm. (1960)

The taxon is phylogenetically part of Russula and thus probably a synonym.[3] However, it has not been formally synonymised yet and continues to be used by taxonomists.[4][5]

Species
  • Cystangium balpineum
  • Cystangium bisporum
  • Cystangium capitis-orae
  • Cystangium clavatum
  • Cystangium depauperatum
  • Cystangium domingueziae[5]
  • Cystangium echinosporum
  • Cystangium flavovirens
  • Cystangium gamundiae[5]
  • Cystangium grandihyphatum[5]
  • Cystangium idahoensis
  • Cystangium longisterigmatum[5]
  • Cystangium luteobrunneum
  • Cystangium lymanensis
  • Cystangium macrocystidium
  • Cystangium maculatum
  • Cystangium medlockii
  • Cystangium megasporum
  • Cystangium nothofagi
  • Cystangium oregonense
  • Cystangium phymatodisporum
  • Cystangium pineti
  • Cystangium pisiglarea
  • Cystangium polychromum
  • Cystangium rodwayi
  • Cystangium seminudum
  • Cystangium sessile
  • Cystangium shultziae
  • Cystangium sparsum
  • Cystangium thaxteri
  • Cystangium theodoroui
  • Cystangium trappei
  • Cystangium variabilisporum
  • Cystangium vesiculosum
  • Cystangium xanthocarpum

References
  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Singer R, Smith AH (1960). "Studies on secotiaceous fungi. IX. The astrogastraceous series". Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 21 (3): 67.
  3. Buyck B, Hofstetter V, Verbeken A, Walleyn R (2010). "Proposal to conserve Lactarius nom. cons. (Basidiomycota) with conserved type". Taxon. 59: 447–453. doi:10.1002/tax.591031.
  4. Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version October 2014). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2014-11-26.
  5. Trierveiler-Pereira L, Smith ME, Trappe JM, Nouhra E (2014). "Sequestrate fungi from Patagonian Nothofagus forests: Cystangium (Russulaceae, Basidiomycota)". Mycologia. 107 (1): 90–103. doi:10.3852/13-302. PMID 25232070.


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