Queletia

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Queletia
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Queletia
Fr. (1872)
Type species
Queletia mirabilis
Fr. (1872)

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]

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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