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Cyphellostereum ushimanum
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Cyphellostereum ushimanum is a species of lichen-forming fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. This basidiolichen was discovered and described in 2022 from a single location on Amami Ōshima island in Japan, where it grows on the bark of Japanese cedar trees. The species has microscopic feeding structures (haustoria) that penetrate its cyanobacterial partner, a feature that required an update to its genus, Cyphellostereum. The lichen produces small, white, paper-thin reproductive structures adjacent to its bluish-green thallus.
- Family
- Hygrophoraceae
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- Name
- Cyphellostereum ushimanum
- Slug
- cyphellostereum-ushimanum
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Hygrophoraceae
- Genus
- Cyphellostereum
- Species
- ushimanum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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