Queletia

Queletia is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872.^[1] 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.^[2] The genus is named after French mycologist Lucien Quélet (1832–1899).^[3]

Queletia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	Queletia Fr. (1872)
Type species
Queletia mirabilis Fr. (1872)

The genus contains three species:^[4]

• Queletia andina J.E. Wright (1989)
• Queletia mirabilis Fr. (1872) (Type species)
• Queletia turcestanica M.Petrov (1929)

Former species:^[4]

• Q. laceratum (Ehrenb. ex Fr.) S. Ahmad (1941) now Schizostoma laceratum
• Q. mundkurii S. Ahmad (1941) now Schizostoma mundkurii

See also

• List of Agaricales genera
• List of Agaricaceae genera

References

1. Fries E. (1872). "Queletia, novum Lycoperdaceorum genus. Accedit nova Gyromitrae species". Öfvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. (in Latin). 28 (2): 171–4.
2. Johnson MM, Coker WS, Couch JN (1974) [First published 1928]. The Gasteromycetes of the Eastern United States and Canada. New York, New York: Dover Publications. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-486-23033-7.
3. Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A handbook to the larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive. p. 52.
4. "Species Fungorum - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 18 September 2022.