Genus
Pseudohydnum
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum. Photo: (c) Reiner Richter, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Pseudohydnum is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. The genus, first described by mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1868, has not been classified with certainty into a family, and so is incertae sedis with respect to familial placement. Pseudohydnum is monotypic, containing only the widely distributed species Pseudohydnum gelatinosum.