Podostroma
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| Podostroma | |
|---|---|
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| Podostroma alutaceum, in James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Hypocreaceae |
| Genus: | Podostroma P.Karst. (1892) |
| Type species | |
| Podostroma leucopus P.Karst. (1892) | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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]
