{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pterula.subulata.-.lindsey.jpg | image_caption = ''Pterula subulata'' | taxon = Pterula | authority = Fr. (1825) | type_species = ''Pterula plumosa'' | type_species_authority = (Schwein.) Fr. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }}
'''''Pterula''''' is a genus of fungi in the ''Pterulaceae'' family. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in tropical regions, and contains about 50 species.<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 |year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk/page/n586 576]|isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref> One such species, ''Pterula sp. 82168'', has yielded potential antifungal antibiotic properties.<ref name="EnglerAnkeSterner1998">{{cite journal | last1 = Engler | first1 = Michaela | last2 = Anke | first2 = Timm | last3 = Sterner | first3 = Olov | title = Production of Antibiotics by Collybia nivalis, Omphalotus olearius, a Favolaschia and a Pterula Species on Natural Substrates | journal = Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C | date = 1 June 1998 | volume = 53 | issue = 5–6 | pages = 318–324 | issn = 0939-5075 | eissn = 1865-7125 | doi = 10.1515/znc-1998-5-604 | pmid = 9705612 | s2cid = 7189999 | url = | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="ENGLERANKESTERNER1997">{{cite journal | last1 = ENGLER | first1 = MICHAELA | last2 = ANKE | first2 = TIMM | last3 = STERNER | first3 = OLOV | last4 = BRANDT | first4 = ULRICH | title = Pterulinic Acid and Pterulone, Two Novel Inhibitors of NADH: Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase (Complex I) Produced by a Pterula Species. I. Production, Isolation and Biological Activities. | journal = The Journal of Antibiotics | date = 1997 | volume = 50 | issue = 4 | pages = 325–329 | issn = 0021-8820 | eissn = 1881-1469 | doi = 10.7164/antibiotics.50.325 | pmid = 9186558 | s2cid = 41871760 | url = | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Engler-LohrAnkeHellwig1999">{{cite journal | last1 = Engler-Lohr | first1 = Michaela | last2 = Anke | first2 = Timm | last3 = Hellwig | first3 = Veronika | last4 = Steglich | first4 = Wolfgang | title = Noroudemansin A, a New Antifungal Antibiotic from Pterula Species 82168 and Three Semisynthetic Derivatives | journal = Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C | date = 1 April 1999 | volume = 54 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 163–168 | issn = 0939-5075 | eissn = 1865-7125 | doi = 10.1515/znc-1999-3-404 | pmid = 10349735 | s2cid = 7595611 | url = | doi-access = free }}</ref>
== Taxonomy == A major reclassification of the ''Pterulaceae'' family occurred in occurred in 2020 and ''Pterula'' was reclassified based on phylogenetic analysis and split into ''Pterula'', ''Myrmecopterula, Pterulicium and Phaeopterula'' genera by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith.<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><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomycetaceae fam. nov. |year=2020 |pmc=7325140 |last1=Leal-Dutra |first1=C. A. |last2=Griffith |first2=G. W. |last3=Neves |first3=M. A. |last4=McLaughlin |first4=D. J. |last5=McLaughlin |first5=E. G. |last6=Clasen |first6=L. A. |last7=Dentinger |first7=B. T. |journal=IMA Fungus |volume=11 |page=2 |doi=10.1186/s43008-019-0022-6 |pmid=32617254 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
== Species == {{As of|2022|July}}, Species Fungorum accepted 67 species of ''Pterula''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Species Fungorum - Pterula |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/names/names.asp?strGenus=Pterula&GSD=Yes |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=www.speciesfungorum.org}}</ref> {{Columns-list|# ''Pterula abietis'' # ''Pterula aciculiformis'' # ''Pterula actinaeformis'' # ''Pterula adustipes'' # ''Pterula arborea'' # ''Pterula bresadolana'' # ''Pterula brunneola'' # ''Pterula capillaris'' # ''Pterula carpophila'' # ''Pterula commersonii'' # ''Pterula complanata'' # ''Pterula crispa'' # ''Pterula culmicola'' # ''Pterula decaryi'' # ''Pterula decumbens'' # ''Pterula dilatata'' # ''Pterula divaricata'' # ''Pterula exserta'' # ''Pterula falcatula'' # ''Pterula fastigiata'' # ''Pterula filaris'' # ''Pterula fructicola'' # ''Pterula frutica'' # ''Pterula fulvescens'' # ''Pterula fusispora'' # ''Pterula grandis'' # ''Pterula himalayensis'' # ''Pterula hirsuta'' # ''Pterula hyphoides'' # ''Pterula importata'' # ''Pterula incisa'' # ''Pterula indica'' # ''Pterula janseniana'' # ''Pterula juruensis'' # ''Pterula landolphiae'' # ''Pterula lecomtei'' # ''Pterula loretensis'' # ''Pterula mannii'' # ''Pterula millei'' # ''Pterula multifida'' # ''Pterula parvispora'' # ''Pterula penicellata'' # ''Pterula penniseti'' # ''Pterula plumosa'' # ''Pterula plumosoides'' # ''Pterula pteridicola'' # ''Pterula pterulicioides'' # ''Pterula pungensis'' # ''Pterula pusilla'' # ''Pterula ramosa'' # ''Pterula robusta'' # ''Pterula setacea'' # ''Pterula setosa'' # ''Pterula simplex'' # ''Pterula squarrosa'' # ''Pterula subplumosa'' # ''Pterula subulata'' # ''Pterula subuliformis'' # ''Pterula taxa'' # ''Pterula thindii'' # ''Pterula timorensis'' # ''Pterula togoensis'' # ''Pterula uleana'' # ''Pterula vanderystii'' # ''Pterula verticillata'' # ''Pterula vinacea'' # ''Pterula winkleriana''}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Pterula'' Fr. |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:18422}}
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Category:Pterulaceae Category:Agaricales genera Category:Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries
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