Tomentella

Tomentella
Tomentella radiosa, Austria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Thelephorales
Family:	Thelephoraceae
Genus:	Tomentella Pers. ex Pat. (1887)
Type species
Tomentella ferruginea (Pers.) Pat. (1887)
Synonyms
Odontia Pers. (1794) Odontium Rafinesque (1817) Alytosporium (Link) Ehrenb. (1818) Hypochnus Fr. (1818) Sporotrichum subgen. Alytosporium Link (1818) Caldesiella Sacc. (1877) Phaeodon subgen. Hydnopsis J.Schröt. (1888) Karstenia Britzelm. (1897) Prillieuxia Sacc. & Syd. (1899) Tomentellina Höhn. & Litsch. (1906) Hydnopsis (J.Schröt.) Rea (1909) Tomentellastrum Svrček (1958)

Tomentella is a genus of corticioid fungi in the family Thelephoraceae. The genus is ectomycorrhizal, and widespread, with about 80 species according to a 2008 estimate, although many new species have since been described.Tomentella was circumscribed by French mycologist Narcisse Théophile Patouillard in 1887.

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