Hohenbuehelia
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| Hohenbuehelia petaloides | |
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| Genus: | Hohenbuehelia Schulzer (1866) |
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| Hohenbuehelia petaloides (Bull.) Schulzer | |
Hohenbuehelia is a pleurotoid genus of agaric fungi characterized by gelatinous-sheathed bowling-pin-shaped cystidia, on conidia, basidiospore germ tubes, and mycelium that adhere to and capture nematodes. The fruitbodies bear thick-walled cystidia (metuloids) in the hymenium along the gill sides and that differentiate the genus from Pleurotus in the Pleurotaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 50 species.