Wenyingia

Wenyingia is a fungal genus in the family Pyronemataceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Wenyingia sichuanensis, found in 1997 in the western Sichuan Province in China. The specific epithet is named for Professor Wenying Zhuang, mycologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1] A cup fungus, its distinctive feature is a very thin spider-web membrane that covers the hymenium.

Wenyingia
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Wenyingia

Zheng Wang & Pfister (2001)
Type species
Wenyingia sichuanensis
Zheng Wang & Pfister (2001)

References

  1. Wang Z, Pfister DH (2001). "Wenyingia, a new genus in Pezizales (Otideaceae)". Mycotaxon. 79: 397–9.


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