Leucogyrophana

Leucogyrophana
Leucogyrophana mollusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Hygrophoropsidaceae
Genus: Leucogyrophana
Pouzar (1958)
Type species
Leucogyrophana mollusca
(Fr.) Pouzar (1958)

Leucogyrophana is a genus of fungi in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae (suborder Coniophorineae of the order Boletales).[1] The genus was erected in 1958 to accommodate the species then known as Merulius molluscus (as Leucogyrophana mollusca). Several more species were described, but DNA testing in 2001 found that L. mollusca was isolated genetically from the others, and most closely related instead to Hygrophoropsis.[2]

Species

As of November 2015, Index Fungorum accepts 11 species of Leucogyrophana:[3]

References

  1. Binder M, Hibbett DS. (2006). "Molecular systematics and biological diversification of Boletales". Mycologia. 98 (6): 971–81. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.971. PMID 17486973.
  2. Jarosch M, Besl H. (2001). "Leucogyrophana, a Polyphyletic Genus of the Order Boletales (Basidiomycetes)". Plant Biology. 3 (4): 443–48. doi:10.1055/s-2001-16455.
  3. Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 27th October 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2015-11-10.


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