Species

Arrhenia retiruga (Small moss oysterling)

Arrhenia retiruga. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Arrhenia is a genus of fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. Arrhenia also includes species formerly placed in the genera Leptoglossum and Phaeotellus and the lectotype species itself has an unusual growth form (discussed below) that would not normally be called agaricoid. All of the species grow in association with photosynthetic cryptogams such as mosses, including peat moss, and alga scums on decaying wood, and soil crusts consisting of mixes of such organisms. Typically the fruitbodies of…

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