Sirobasidium
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| Sirobasidium | |
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| Sirobasidium magnum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Sirobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Sirobasidium Lagerh. & Pat. (1892) |
| Type species | |
| Sirobasidium sanguineum Lagerh. & Pat. (1892) | |
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Sirobasidium albidum | |
Sirobasidium is a genus of fungi in the order Tremellales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are gelatinous and appear to be parasitic on ascomycetous fungi on wood. Microscopically they are distinguished by producing septate basidia in chains which give rise to deciduous sterigmata. Species are distributed worldwide.
Sirobasidium was introduced in 1892 by Swedish mycologist Gustaf Lagerheim and French mycologist Narcisse Patouillard for two fungi collected in Ecuador that possessed distinctive, catenulate, tremelloid basidia (septate basidia formed in chains). Subsequent authors added further species with similar basidia.
Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that Sirobasidium may be polyphyletic (and hence artificial), though this is based on a single culture that may be contaminated and requires further research.[1][2]
