Leucophleps

Leucophleps is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the family Albatrellaceae[3]. The genus, widespread in northern temperate regions, contains four species.[4] Leucophleps was circumscribed by American mycologist Harvey Willson Harkness in 1899.[5]

Leucophleps
Leucophleps spinispora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Russulales
Family:
Albatrellaceae
Genus:
Leucophleps

Harkn. (1899)
Type species
Leucophleps magnata
Harkn. (1899)
Species
  • L. aculeatispora
  • L. levispora
  • L. magnata
  • L. spinispora
Synonyms[1]

Cremeogaster Mattir. (1924)[2]

References
  1. "Leucophleps Harkn. :257, 1899". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  2. Lloyd CG. (1924). "Mycological Notes 72". 7 (72): 1269–1300. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Albee-Scott, Steven (2007). "The phylogenetic placement of the Leucogastrales, including Mycolevis siccigleba (Cribbeaceae), in the Albatrellaceae using morphological and molecular data". Mycological Research. 111 (6): 653–662. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.020. ISSN 0953-7562. PMID 17604150.
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 375. ISBN 9780851998268.
  5. Phillips W, Harkness HW (1899). "Californian hypogaeous fungi". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 1 (8): 241–91.


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