Absidia
{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| image = Mature_sporangium_of_a_Mucor_sp._fungus.jpg
| image_caption = Mature, blue-stained sporangium of an Absidia mold viewed with a light microscope
| taxon = Absidia
| authority = Tiegh. (1878)
| type_species = Absidia reflexa
| type_species_authority = Tiegh.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
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Absidia is a genus of fungi in the family Cunninghamellaceae.{{Cite web|url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=20001|title=Absidia|last=Kirk|first=Paul|date=|website=Index Fungorum|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212053/http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=20001 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=9 September 2019}} Absidia species are ubiquitous in most environments where they are often associated with warm decaying plant matter, such as compost heaps. Some species in the genus can cause phycomycosis.{{Cite book|title=Concise medical dictionary.|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Martin, E. A. (Elizabeth A.)|isbn=978-0-19-172701-6|edition=8th|location=[Oxford]|pages=224|oclc=894628585}}
Taxonomy
The genus was first described in 1878 by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem.{{citation|author=van Tieghem, P.E.L.|authorlink=Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem|journal= Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique |series=Série 6|volume= 4|pages=350 |date=1878|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42631242|title=Troisième mémoire sur les mucorinées}}
=Species=
The genus includes the following species:
- Absidia aegyptiaca
- Absidia anomala
- Absidia atrospora
- Absidia caerulea
- Absidia californica
- Absidia clavata
- Absidia cuneospora
- Absidia cylindrospora
- Absidia dubia
- Absidia fassatiae
- Absidia glauca
- Absidia griseola
- Absidia heterospora
- Absidia idahoensis
- Absidia inflata
- Absidia macrospora
- Absidia narayanai
- Absidia pseudocylindrospora
- Absidia psychrophilia
- Absidia reflexa
- Absidia repens
- Absidia spinosa
- Absidia tuneta
- Absidia ushtrina
=Synonyms=
Absidia corymbifera is a synonym for Lichtheimia corymbifera.
References
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External links
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- [http://zygomycetes.org/index.php?id=108 Genus Absidia account]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130503215309/http://doctorfungus.org/thefungi/absidia.php Doctor Fungus fact sheet]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070920092110/http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Fungal_Descriptions/Zygomycetes/Absidia/ Mycology Online: A. corymbifera]
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Category:Taxa named by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem
Category:Taxa described in 1878
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