Pleurotaceae

Family of mushrooms

Pleurotaceae

Pleurotus ostreatus
Albin Schmalfuß, 1897
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Basidiomycota
Class:  | Agaricomycetes
Order:  | Agaricales
Family:  | Pleurotaceae
Kühner (1980)
Type genus
Pleurotus

(Fr.) P.Kumm. (1871)

Genera

* Acanthocystis
* Agaricochaete
* Antromycopsis
* Geopetalum
* Hohenbuehelia
* Lignomyces
* Nematoctonus
* Nothopanus
* Pleurotopsis
* Pleurotus
* Resupinatus
* Rhodocyphella
* Stigmatolemma

The Pleurotaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have white spores. The family contains 13 genera over 412 species.[1] Members of Pleurotaceae can be mistaken for members of Marasmiaceae. Perhaps the best known member is the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus.

Many species in the genera Pleurotus and Hohenbuehelia are nematophagous, that is, they derive nutrition by consuming nematodes. This is made possible by hyphae that may have adhesive knobs that attach to passing nematodes and secrete nematotoxic compounds.[2][3]

## See also

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* List of Agaricales families

## References

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1. ^ "Pleurotaceae | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
2. ^ Thorn RG, Moncalvo JM, Reddy CA, Vilgalys R (2000). "Phylogenetic analyses and the distribution of nematophagy support a monophyletic Pleurotaceae within the polyphyletic pleurotoid-lentinoid fungi". Mycologia. 92 (2): 241–52\. doi:10.1080/00275514.2000.12061151. JSTOR 3761557. S2CID 84665162.
3. ^ Koziak AT, Cheng KC, Thorn RG (2007). "Phylogenetic analyses of Nematoctonus and Hohenbuehelia (Pleurotaceae)". Canadian Journal of Botany. 85 (8): 762–73\. doi:10.1139/b07-083.

## External links

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* " Pleurotaceae Kühner". Atlas of Living Australia.

Taxon identifiers

Pleurotaceae|

* Wikidata: Q7319414
* Wikispecies: Pleurotaceae
* APNI: 176294
* AusFungi: 60013502
* CoL: 625RB
* EoL: 5972
* EPPO: 1PLURF
* FloraBase: 44789
* GBIF: 4183
* iNaturalist: 48495
* IndexFungorum: 81191
* IRMNG: 108340
* ITIS: 936534
* MycoBank: 81191
* NBN: NHMSYS0001494083
* NCBI: 104366
* NZOR: f5fef1bb-2585-459a-88a7-4e4986840b87
* Open Tree of Life: 13836
* Plazi: 5F1F9510-8964-68DF-3EC1-79938BEEF3A2
* SpeciesFungorum: 81191
* Tropicos: 100370605
* WoRMS: 426189

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