Aleuria is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus, A. aurantia.

Aleuria species are saprobes.

Description

• This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and epigeous nature.

• The ascospores are distinctly reticulate.

• Species are typically (but not always) bright in color.

• ascocarps are typically over 1cm in diameter.

Species

• Aleuria alpina

• Aleuria amplissima

• Aleuria applanata

• Aleuria ascophanoides

• Aleuria aurantia

• Aleuria balfour-browneae

• Aleuria boudieri

• Aleuria carbonicola

• Aleuria cestrica

• Aleuria crassa

• Aleuria crassiuscula

• Aleuria crucibulum

• Aleuria dalhousiensis

• Aleuria exigua

• Aleuria gigantea

• Aleuria gonnermannii

• Aleuria ingrica

• Aleuria isochroa

• Aleuria latispora

• Aleuria lloydiana

• Aleuria luteonitens

• Aleuria marchica

• Aleuria medogensis

• Aleuria mellea

• Aleuria membranacea

• Aleuria mespiliformis

• Aleuria michiganensis

• Aleuria murreana

• Aleuria nemorosa

• Aleuria nucalis

• Aleuria ollula

• Aleuria pectinospora

• Aleuria phaeospora

• Aleuria reperta

• Aleuria riparia

• Aleuria saccardoi

• Aleuria splendens

• Aleuria sylvestris

• Aleuria tectipus

• Aleuria tuberculosa

References

• C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004)