Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Leotiomycetes
Ordo: Cyttariales
Familia: Cyttariaceae
Genus: Cyttaria
Species: C. darwinii – C. espinosae – C. gunnii – C. hariotii – C. johowii – C. nigra
Name
Cyttaria Berk., 1842
Type species: Cyttaria darwinii Berk.
Cyttaria is a genus of ascomycete fungi. About 10 species belong to Cyttaria, found in South America, Australia and New Zealand, associated with or growing on southern beech trees from the genus Nothofagus.[1] The "llao llao" fungus Cyttaria hariotii, one of the most common fungi in Andean-Patagonian forests,[2] has been shown to harbor the yeast Saccharomyces eubayanus, which may be source of the lager yeast S. pastorianus cold-tolerance.[3] Cyttaria was originally described by mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1842.[4]
References
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Kirk MP, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
Gamundi IJ, Horak E (1995). Fungi of the Andean-Patagonian Forests. Buenos Aires: Vazquez Mazzini Editores. ISBN 9509906379.
Libkind D, Hittinger CT, Valério E, Gonçalves C, Dover J, Johnston M, Gonçalves P, Sampaio JP (2011). "Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (35): 14539–44. doi:10.1073/pnas.1105430108. PMC 3167505. PMID 21873232.
Berkeley MJ. (1842). "On an edible fungus from Tierra del Fuego, and an allied Chilian species". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 19: 37–43. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1842.tb00073.x.
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