Queletia is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872.[1] Fruit bodies of Queletia species are sequestrate with a thin outer skin (peridium) and a harder inner skin that breaks into small pieces with age.[2] The genus is named after French mycologist Lucien Quélet (1832–1899).[3]

Queletia
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Queletia

Fr. (1872)
Type species
Queletia mirabilis
Fr. (1872)

The genus contains three species:[4]

Former species:[4]

  • Q. laceratum (Ehrenb. ex Fr.) S. Ahmad (1941) now Schizostoma laceratum
  • Q. mundkurii S. Ahmad (1941) now Schizostoma mundkurii


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References

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  1. ^ Fries E. (1872). "Queletia, novum Lycoperdaceorum genus. Accedit nova Gyromitrae species". Öfvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. (in Latin). 28 (2): 171–4.
  2. ^ Johnson MM, Coker WS, Couch JN (1974) [First published 1928]. The Gasteromycetes of the Eastern United States and Canada. New York, New York: Dover Publications. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-486-23033-7.
  3. ^ Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A handbook to the larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive. p. 52.
  4. ^ a b "Species Fungorum - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 18 September 2022.