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Amaurohydnum

genus of fungi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ4740666 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amaurohydnum is a fungal genus in the family Meruliaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single resupinate species Amaurohydnum flavidum, found in Australia on Eucalyptus wood and described as new to science in 1978.

Editorial summary

“Amaurohydnum” enters the record as genus of fungi. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Amaurohydnum, genus and fungi can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Amaurohydnum, genus and fungi.
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“Amaurohydnum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Amaurohydnum, genus and fungi provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4740666. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amaurohydnum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.