Aleuria

Genus of fungi

Aleuria

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Ascomycota
Class:  | Pezizomycetes
Order:  | Pezizales
Family:  | Pyronemataceae
Genus:  | Aleuria
Fuckel (1870)
Type species
Aleuria aurantia

(Pers.) Fuckel (1870)

Aleuria is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus, A. aurantia.

Aleuria species are saprobes.

## Description

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* This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and epigeous nature.
* The ascospores are distinctly reticulate.
* Species are typically (but not always) bright in color.
* ascocarps are typically over 1 cm in diameter.

## Species

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* Aleuria alpina
* Aleuria amplissima
* Aleuria applanata
* Aleuria ascophanoides
* Aleuria aurantia
* Aleuria balfour-browneae
* Aleuria boudieri
* Aleuria carbonicola
* Aleuria cestrica
* Aleuria crassa
* Aleuria crassiuscula
* Aleuria crucibulum
* Aleuria dalhousiensis
* Aleuria exigua
* Aleuria gigantea
* Aleuria gonnermannii
* Aleuria ingrica
* Aleuria isochroa
* Aleuria latispora
* Aleuria lloydiana
* Aleuria luteonitens
* Aleuria marchica
* Aleuria medogensis
* Aleuria mellea
* Aleuria membranacea
* Aleuria mespiliformis
* Aleuria michiganensis
* Aleuria murreana
* Aleuria nemorosa
* Aleuria nucalis
* Aleuria ollula
* Aleuria pectinospora
* Aleuria phaeospora
* Aleuria reperta
* Aleuria riparia
* Aleuria saccardoi
* Aleuria splendens
* Aleuria sylvestris
* Aleuria tectipus
* Aleuria tuberculosa

## References

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* C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5

Taxon identifiers

Aleuria|

* Wikidata: Q1144912
* Wikispecies: Aleuria
* AusFungi: 60014587
* CoL: RRR
* EoL: 16480
* EPPO: 1ALRAG
* GBIF: 2581719
* iNaturalist: 48719
* IndexFungorum: 119
* MycoBank: 119
* NBN: NHMSYS0001474325
* NCBI: 5187
* NZOR: 59052ae0-debb-4a9a-8fc2-acb3275c7c5d
* Open Tree of Life: 622666
* SpeciesFungorum: 119

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