Sarea

{{short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Taxobox | image = Sarea resinae (Fr.) Kuntze 720850.jpg | image_caption = ''Sarea resinae'' | regnum = Fungi | divisio = Ascomycota | classis = Sareomycetes | ordo = Sareales | familia = Sareaceae | genus = '''''Sarea''''' | genus_authority = Fr. (1825) | type_species = ''Sarea difformis'' | type_species_authority = (Fr.) Fr. (1828) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivisions = }}

'''''Sarea''''' is a genus of small, non-lichenized, inoperculate,<ref name="Hawksworth & Sherwood 1981"/> discomycete fungi in the family Zythiaceae.<ref name="Beimforde et al. 2020"/><ref name="Mitchell & Quijada 2020"/> ''Sarea'' species are found growing on the resin of conifers in the Cupressaceae and Pinaceae in the Northern Hemisphere.<ref name="Hawksworth & Sherwood 1981"/> Two species in the genus are readily distinguishable from each other: apothecia of ''Sarea difformis'' are black, while those of ''Sarea resinae'' are orange in color.<ref name="Hawksworth & Sherwood 1981"/>

==Species== * ''Sarea coeloplata'' {{Au|(Norman) J.K.Mitch., Garrido-Ben. & Quijada (2021)}}<ref name="Mitchell et al. 2021"/> * ''Sarea difformis'' {{au|(Fr.) Fr. (1828)}} * ''Sarea resinae'' {{au|(Fr.) Kuntze (1898)}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Mitchell et al. 2021">{{cite journal |last1=Mitchell |first1=James K. |last2=Garrido-Benavent | first2=Isaac | last3=Quijada | first3=Luis |last4=Pfister |first4=Donald H. |title=Sareomycetes: more diverse than meets the eye |journal=IMA Fungus |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=2021 |doi=10.1186/s43008-021-00056-0 |pmid=33726866 |pmc=7961326 |doi-access=free |page=e6}}</ref>

<ref name="Hawksworth & Sherwood 1981">{{cite journal |last1=Hawksworth |first1=D.L. |last2=Sherwood |first2=M.A. |date=1981 |title=A reassessment of three widespread resinicolous discomycetes |journal=Canadian Journal of Botany |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=357–372 |doi=10.1139/b81-049}}</ref>

<ref name="Beimforde et al. 2020">{{cite journal |last1=Beimforde |first1=C. |last2=Schmidt |first2=A.R. |last3=Rikkinen |first3=J. |last4=Mitchell |first4=J.K. |year=2020 |title=Sareomycetes cl. nov.: A new proposal for placement of the resinicolous genus ''Sarea'' (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) |journal=Fungal Systematics and Evolution |volume=6 |pages=25–37 |doi=10.3114/fuse.2020.06.02 |pmid=32904095 |pmc=7451776 |hdl=10138/317218 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

<ref name="Mitchell & Quijada 2020">{{cite journal |last1=Mitchell |first1=J.K. |last2=Quijada |first2=L. |year=2020 |title=(2762) Proposal to conserve the name ''Cytospora resinae'' (''Zythia resinae'') with a conserved type (Ascomycota) |journal=Taxon |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=1102–1103 |doi=10.3158/1557.1 |s2cid=86529508}}</ref> }}

Category:Ascomycota Category:Ascomycota genera Category:Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries Category:Taxa described in 1825