Spinellus

Spinellus is a genus of fungi in the Phycomycetaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains three species of pin mold that are parasitic on agaric mushrooms.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by Phillippe Edouard Leon van Tieghem in 1875.^[2]

Spinellus
Spinellus fusiger growing on Mycena haematopus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Mucoromycota
Class:	Mucoromycetes
Order:	Mucorales
Family:	Phycomycetaceae
Genus:	Spinellus Tiegh. (1875)
Type species
Spinellus fusiger (Link) Tiegh. (1875)
Species
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Species

• Spinellus chalybeus
• Spinellus fusiger
• Spinellus sphaerosporus