Abstoma

Abstoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	Abstoma; G.Cunn. (1926)
Type species
	Abstoma purpureum; (Lloyd) G.Cunn. (1926)
Species
	A. fibulaceum; A. friabile; A. pampeanum; A. purpureum; A. townei; A. reticulatum; A. verrucisporum;

Abstoma is a genus of gasteroid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The type species, A. purpureum, was described from New Zealand by mycologist Gordon Herriot Cunningham in 1926.^[1] Wright and colleagues transferred A. stuckertii (originally Bovista stuckertii Speg.) to the genus in 1990,^[3] but Moreno et al proposed a new combination Disciseda stuckertii in 2007.^[4] A. fimbrialis was described from Baja California, Mexico, in 1992.^[5] A. townei is found in western and southwest USA and in west Argentina, while A. reticulatum occurs in Australia and the western and southwestern USA.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Cunningham GH. (1927). "Lycoperdaceae of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 57: 187–217.
^ Zeller SM. (1947). "More notes on Gasteromycetes". Mycologia. 39 (3): 282–312. doi:10.2307/3755205. JSTOR 3755205.
^ Wright JE, Suarez VL (1990). "South American Gasteromycetes IV. The genus Abstoma". Cryptogamic Botany. 1 (4): 372–83.
^ ^a ^b Moreno G, Esqueda M, Pérez-Silva E, Herrera T, Altés A (2007). "Some interesting gasteroid and secotioid fungi from Sonora, Mexico" (PDF). Persoonia. 19 (2): 265–80.
^ Moreno G, Altés A, Ochoa C, Wright JE (1992). "Abstoma friabilis sp. nov. (Gasteromycetes) from Baja California, Mexico". Mycotaxon. 45: 235–40.

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