Pseudohydnum

Pseudohydnum is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically bracket-like and gelatinous, with or without a stipe, with a hydnoid (toothed) undersurface. The genus is widely distributed in both the northern and southern hemisphere, with thirteen species currently described and others awaiting description.^[1]

Pseudohydnum
Pseudohydnum species, USA
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Auriculariales
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Pseudohydnum P. Karst. (1868)
Type species
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (Scop.) P. Karst. (1868)
Species
Pseudohydnum alienum Pseudohydnum brunneiceps Pseudohydnum cystidiatum Pseudohydnum gelatinosum Pseudohydnum himalayanum Pseudohydnum meridianum Pseudohydnum omnipavum Pseudohydnum orbiculare Pseudohydnum placibile Pseudohydnum sinogelatinosum Pseudohydnum tasmanicum Pseudohydnum totarae Pseudohydnum umbrosum

Taxonomy

The genus, first described by Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1868,^[2] has not yet been classified with certainty into a family. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed Pseudohydnum as a natural (monophyletic) taxon.^[3][1]