{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Queletia | authority = Fr. (1872) | type_species = ''Queletia mirabilis'' | type_species_authority = Fr. (1872) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }} '''''Queletia''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872.<ref name="Fries 1872"/> Fruit bodies of ''Queletia'' species are sequestrate with a thin outer skin (peridium) and a harder inner skin that breaks into small pieces with age.<ref name="Coker 1974"/> The genus is named after French mycologist Lucien Quélet (1832–1899).<ref name="Rea 1922"/>
The genus contains three species:<ref name="Fungorum">{{cite web |title=Species Fungorum - Search Page |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Queletia |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref> * ''Queletia andina'' {{Au|J.E. Wright (1989)}} * ''Queletia mirabilis'' {{Au|Fr. (1872)}} (Type species) * ''Queletia turcestanica'' {{Au|M.Petrov (1929)}}
Former species:<ref name="Fungorum"/> * ''Q. laceratum'' {{Au|(Ehrenb. ex Fr.) S. Ahmad (1941)}} now ''Schizostoma laceratum'' * ''Q. mundkurii'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1941)}} now ''Schizostoma mundkurii''
==See also== *List of Agaricales genera *List of Agaricaceae genera
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Coker 1974">{{cite book |vauthors=Johnson MM, Coker WS, Couch JN |title=The Gasteromycetes of the Eastern United States and Canada |publisher=Dover Publications |location=New York, New York |year=1974 |orig-date=First published 1928 |page=56 |isbn=978-0-486-23033-7}}</ref>
<ref name="Fries 1872">{{cite journal |author=Fries E. |title=Queletia, novum Lycoperdaceorum genus. Accedit nova Gyromitrae species |journal=Öfvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. |year=1872 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=171–4 |language=Latin}}</ref>
<ref name="Rea 1922">{{cite book |author=Rea C. |title=British Basidiomycetae: A handbook to the larger British Fungi |year=1922 |publisher=CUP Archive |location=Cambridge, UK |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4tg8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52}}</ref>
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{{taxonbar |from=Q7271193}} Category:Agaricaceae Category:Agaricales genera Category:Taxa described in 1872 Category:Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries
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