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Wenyingia

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Pezizomycetes

Family
  
Pyronemataceae

Rank
  
Genus

Division
  
Ascomycota

Order
  
Pezizales

Scientific name
  
Wenyingia

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Wenyingia is a fungal genus in the family Pyronemataceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Wenyingia sichuanensis, found in 1997 in the western Sichuan Province in China. The specific epithet is named for Professor Wenying Zhuang, mycologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A cup fungus, its distinctive feature is a very thin spider-web membrane that covers the hymenium.

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Wenyingia Wikipedia