Aphanobasidium

Aphanobasidium
Aphanobasidium pseudotsugae on Pinus sylvestris
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Aphanobasidium

Jülich (1979)
Type species
Aphanobasidium subnitens
(Bourdot & Galzin) Jülich

Aphanobasidium is a genus of corticioid or crust fungi in the Radulomycetaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains several species. This genus was formally considered to be part of the Pterulaceae family.

A major reclassification of the Pterulaceae family occurred in 2020 and the genera Aphanobasidium, Radulomyces and Radulotubus were moved to a new family, Radulomycetaceae by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith.