Fungi named in 1959

Pisolithus arhizus, commonly known as the dead man's foot, dyeball, pardebal, or Bohemian truffle, is a widespread earthball-like fungus.

Lepista irina is a species of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae. It is a choice edible mushroom. It has cosmopolitan distribution.

Chondrostereum purpureum is a fungal plant pathogen which causes silver leaf disease of trees. It attacks most species of the rose family Rosaceae, particularly the genus Prunus. The disease is progressive and often fatal. The common name is taken from the progressive silvering of leaves on affected branches. It is spread by airborne spores landing on freshly exposed sapwood. For this reason cherries and plums are pruned in summer, when spores are least likely to be present and when disease is visible. Silver leaf can also occur on poming fruits like apples and pears; plums are especially

The Mixiomycetes are a class of fungi in the Pucciniomycotina subdivision of the Basidiomycota. The class contains a single order, the Mixiales, which in turn contains a single family, the Mixiaceae that circumscribes the monotypic genus Mixia. Only one species has been described to date, Mixia osmundae; this species was originally named Taphrina osmundae by Japanese mycologist Toji Nishida in 1911. It is characterized by having multinucleate hyphae, and by producing multiple spores on sporogenous cells. The genus name of Mixia is in honour of Arthur Jackson Mix (1888-1956), who was an

Pleurotus djamor, commonly known as the pink oyster mushroom, is a species of fungus in the family Pleurotaceae.

Stigmina carpophila (syn. Wilsonomyces carpophilus) also known as Cherry Shot Hole is a fungal plant pathogen causing shot hole disease in stone fruits (Prunus spp.).

Cantharellus pallens, the pale chanterelle, is a species of Cantharellus from Europe.

Chondrostereum is a genus of fungi in the family Cyphellaceae. The type species, Chondrostereum purpureum, causes the disease called silver leaf.

Amylocorticium is a genus of resupinate (crust-like) fungi in the Amylocorticiaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species.

The Cunninghamellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Mucorales.

Ceriporia excelsa is a species of crust fungus in the family Irpicaceae. It is found in Europe and North America, where it typically grows on dead hardwood. It has also been recorded from China.

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Cystostereum is a genus of crust fungi in the family Cystostereaceae. The generic name combines the Greek word κύστις ("bladder") with Stereum.

Bipolaris is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Pleosporaceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist Robert A. Shoemaker in 1959. It has a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide.

Meruliopsis is a genus of poroid crust fungi. The genus was circumscribed by Russian mycologist Appollinaris Semenovich Bondartsev in 1959. Although traditionally classified in the family Phanerochaetaceae, recent molecular phylogenetic analysis supports the placement of Meruliopsis in the Irpicaceae.

Laurilia is a monotypic genus of crust fungi in the family Echinodontiaceae. The genus was described in 1959 by Czech mycologist Zdeněk Pouzar, with Laurilia sulcata (originally Stereum sulcatum) as the type and only species. Pouzar then transferred Laurilia taxodii from Stereum to Laurilia in 1968, but Liu et al. erected the new genus Lauriliella for the latter species in 2017 on the basis of ribosomal DNA molecular phylogeny. Liu et al. also found the Echinodontiaceae as traditionally circumscribed to be paraphyletic and placed Laurilia and Lauriliella instead in the Bondarzewiaceae, though

The Helicocephalidaceae are a family of fungi in the Zoopagales order. The family contains 4 genera and 13 species.

Nivatogastrium is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Strophariaceae. The genus has contained four species found in North America and New Zealand, but the type species, Nivatogastrium nubigenum, is now considered to be a gasteroid species of Pholiota, and was transferred to that genus in 2014.

Hydnellum auratile is a tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae, first described by the German mycologist Max Britzelmayr in 1891. The fungus produces distinctive orange to orange-brown fruit bodies with caps up to 5 cm wide that fade to brown with age. It forms ectomycorrhizal associations with both coniferous and deciduous trees, particularly Scots pine and Norway spruce on calcareous soils. Though widely distributed across Europe, parts of Asia, Australia, and North America's Pacific Northwest, H. auratile is considered endangered in Switzerland.

Humidicutis is a small genus of brightly coloured agarics, the majority of which are found in Eastern Australia. They were previously described as members of Hygrocybe. The genus Porpolomopsis is closely related, and the species in it were once placed in Humidicutis. The genus was described by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1959. The generic name derives from the Latin humidus "moist" and cutis "skin", referring to their moist caps.

Cystostereum murrayi is a species of fungus belonging to the family Cystostereaceae. It has cosmopolitan distribution.

Chromocyphella muscicola is a species of fungus in the family Chromocyphellaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are cyphelloid, cup-shaped, about 4 mm across, with an upper surface covered with fine hairs and a smooth underside. It was first described as Cyphella muscicola by Elias Fries in 1822, and was transferred to the newly erected genus, Chromocyphella, in 1959 by Marinus Anton Donk.

Cellypha goldbachii is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Cellypha.

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Cochliobolus carbonum (anamorph: Helminthosporium carbonum) is one of more than 40 species of filamentous ascomycetes belonging to the genus Cochliobolus (anamorph: Bipolaris/Curvularia). This pathogen has a worldwide distribution, with reports from Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Congo, Denmark, Egypt, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Nigeria, Solomon Islands, and the United States. Cochliobolus carbonum is one of the most aggressive members of this genus infecting sorghum (Sorghum spp. [Poaceae]), corn (Zea mays [Poaceae]) and apple (Malus domestica [Rosaceae]). As one of the most

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Amanita aestivalis, commonly known as the white American star-footed amanita, is a species of fungus in the mushroom family Amanitaceae. The cap of the white fruit body is 5 to 8.5 centimetres (2 to 3+1⁄4 inches) in diameter. It sits atop a stem that is 8.5 to 16 cm (3+1⁄4 to 6+1⁄4 in) long. The entire fruit body will slowly stain a reddish-brown color in response to bruising. A. aestivalis may be a synonym for A. brunnescens, and may be confused with several other white-bodied amanitas. The fungus is distributed in eastern North America.

The Syncephalastraceae are a family of fungi in the order Mucorales. Members of this family have a widespread distribution, but are more common in tropical and subtropical regions.

Schizothyrium pomi is a plant pathogen of the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex, infecting apple, pear and citrus trees and carnations. As of 2008 it has been a presumed teleomorph of Zygophiala jamaicensis.