Podostroma

Podostroma is a genus of fungi in the family Hypocreaceae, circumscribed by the Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1892 and containing eleven species (some highly toxic) with a widespread distribution.

Podostroma
Podostroma alutaceum, in James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797)
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Podostroma

P.Karst. (1892)
Type species
Podostroma leucopus
P.Karst. (1892)
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Hypocrea subgen. Podocrea Sacc. (1883)
  • Podocrea (Sacc.) Lindau (1897)
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