Gummivena

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | genus = Gummivena | parent_authority = Trappe & Bougher (2002) | species = potorooi | authority = Trappe & Bougher (2002) | range_map = Gilbert's Potoroo area.png | range_map_caption = ''Gummivena'' is found only in the range of Gilbert's potoroo in Western Australia }}

'''''Gummivena''''' is a fungal genus in the Mesophelliaceae family.<ref name=Kirk2008/> The genus is monotypic, containing the single truffle-like species '''''Gummivena potorooi''''', found in Western Australia. Described as new to science in 2002, ''Gummivena'' is intermediate in form between ''Castoreum'' and ''Gummiglobus'', and has a gleba with "veins" of gummy tissue and a three-layered peridium. The specific epithet ''potorooi'' refers the fact that the fungus is found only in the range of the rare and endangered species Gilbert's potoroo (''Potorous gilbertii'').<ref name=Trappe2002/>

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<ref name=Kirk2008>{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk |url-access=limited |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk/page/n306 296] |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>

<ref name=Trappe2002>{{cite journal |vauthors=Trappe JM, Bougher NL |title=Australasian Sequestrate (truffle-like) Fungi. XI. ''Gummivena potorooi'' gen. & sp. nov. (Basidiomycota, Mesophelliaceae), with a key to the "gummy" genera and species of the Mesophelliaceae |journal=Australasian Mycologist |year=2002 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=9–11 |url=http://www.australasianmycology.com/pages/pdf/21/1/9.pdf |format=PDF }}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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Category:Hysterangiales Category:Monotypic Basidiomycota genera Category:Truffles (fungi) Category:Taxa named by James Trappe