Galiella

Galiella
Galiella rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Sarcosomataceae
Genus: Galiella
Nannf. & Korf (1957)
Type species
Galiella rufa
(Schwein.) Nannf. & Korf (1957)

Galiella is a genus of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae. The genus is widely distributed in northern temperate regions, and according to one estimate, contains eight species.[1]

Taxonomy

Galiella was described in 1957 by Richard Korf and John Axel Nannfeldt. In the early 1950s, French mycologist Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal used the generic name Sarcosoma to treat several species that she did not think belonged in the same genus as Sarcosoma globosum, the type species.[2][3] As Korf later pointed out, this usage contravened the rules of botanical nomenclature.[4] Korf and Nannfield proposed Galiella to accommodate these species, and set G. rufa as the type. The generic name honors Le Gal.[5]

Description

Galiella includes bulgarioid species (those with a morphology similar to those in Bulgaria) with spores featuring surface warts that are made of callose-pectic substances that stain with methyl blue dye.[5]

Species

References

  1. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ↑ Le Gal M. (1951). "Observations sur Sarcosoma orientale Pat. et Sarcosoma rufum (Schw.) Rehm.". Bull Soc Myc Fr. (in French). 67: 101–106.
  3. ↑ Le Gal M. Les Discomycètes de Madagascar. Prodrome à Flore Mycologique de Madagascar et Dépendanes (in French). 4. pp. 1–465.
  4. ↑ Korf RP. (1957). "Nomenclatural Notes. II. On Bulgaria, Phaeobulgaria and Sarcosoma". Mycologia. 49 (1): 102–106. doi:10.2307/3755733. JSTOR 3755733.
  5. 1 2 Korf RP. (1957). "Two bulgarioid genera: Galiella and Plectania". Mycologia. 49 (1): 107–111. doi:10.2307/3755734.


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