Phaeopterula

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Phaeopterula | authority = Henn. (1905) | type_species = ''Phaeopterula hirsuta'' | type_species_authority = (Henn.) Sacc. & D. Sacc. }}

'''''Phaeopterula''''' is a genus of fungi in the family ''Pterulaceae''. Basidiocarps are clavarioid and resemble species of ''Pterula''.

== Taxonomy == This genus was originally described by the German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings in 1905 but most subsequent mycologists considered it a synonym of ''Pterula''. The genus was resurrected in 2020 when a major reclassification of the Pterulaceae based on phylogenetic analysis split the family into four genera: ''Pterula'', ''Myrmecopterula'', ''Pterulicium'', and ''Phaeopterula''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Leal-Dutra |first1=Caio A. |last2=Griffith |first2=Gareth W. |last3=Neves |first3=Maria Alice |last4=McLaughlin |first4=David J. |last5=McLaughlin |first5=Esther G. |last6=Clasen |first6=Lina A. |last7=Dentinger |first7=Bryn T. M. |date=December 2020 |title=Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus ''Myrmecopterula'' gen. nov., ''Phaeopterula'' Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov. |journal=IMA Fungus |language=en |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=2 |doi=10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6 |issn=2210-6359 |pmc=7325140 |pmid=32617254 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Three former ''Pterula'' species were added to ''Phaeopterula''.

== Species == As of October 2022, Species Fungorum accepted five species of ''Phaeopterula''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Species Fungorum - Phaeopterula |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/names/names.asp?strGenus=Phaeopterula&GSD=Yes |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=www.speciesfungorum.org}}</ref> {{Columns-list|* ''Phaeopterula anomala'' * ''Phaeopterula hirsuta'' * ''Phaeopterula juruensis'' * ''Phaeopterula stipata'' * ''Phaeopterula taxiformis''}}

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Category:Pterulaceae Category:Agaricales genera Category:Taxa described in 1905 Category:Taxa named by Paul Christoph Hennings