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Protohydnum
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Protohydnum

Protohydnum is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Protohydnum cartilagineum, the type and only species, occurs in Central and South America and produces effused, cartilaginous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on wood, yellow-ochre and wholly covered in small spines. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that the genus is distinct, but that other species previously referred to Protohydnum belong in the genera Hyalodon or Elmerina.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

white jelly fungus

speciesProtohydnum album

Protohydnum pululahuanum

speciesProtohydnum pululahuanum

Protohydnum sucinum

speciesProtohydnum sucinum

Protohydnum galzinii

speciesProtohydnum galzinii

Protohydnum translucidum

speciesProtohydnum translucidum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 353001.