Australicium

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Basidiomycota

| classis = Agaricomycetes

| ordo = Polyporales

| familia = Phanerochaetaceae

| genus = Australicium

| genus_authority = Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2002)

| type_species = Australicium singulare

| type_species_authority = (G.Cunn.) Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2002)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = A. cylindrosporum

A. singulare

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Australicium is a genus of corticioid fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae. The genus was circumscribed by mycologists Kurt Hjortstam and Leif Ryvarden in 2002 to contain the type species, A. singulare, which is found in New Zealand. The Venezuelan species A. cylindrosporum was added to the genus in 2005.

References

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{{cite journal |author1=Hjortstam, Kurt |author2=Ryvarden, Leif |year=2002 |title=Australicium (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales) a new genus for Corticium singulare G. Cunn. |journal=Synopsis Fungorum |volume=15 |pages=18–21}}

{{cite journal |author1=Ryvarden, Leif |author2=Hjortstam, Kurt |author3=Iturriaga, Teresa |year=2005 |title=Studies in corticioid fungi from Venezuela II (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales) |journal=Synopsis Fungorum |volume=20 |pages=42–78}}

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Category:Phanerochaetaceae

Category:Polyporales genera

Category:Taxa named by Leif Ryvarden

Category:Taxa described in 2002