Dissophora

Dissophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Zygomycota
Subdivision: Mucoromycotina
Order: Mortierellales
Family: Mortierellaceae
Genus: Dissophora
Thaxt. (1914)
Type species
Dissophora decumbens
Thaxt. (1914)
Species

D. decumbens
D. nadsonii
D. ornata

Dissophora is a genus of fungi in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota. The genus is widespread in north temperate regions and contains three species.[1] Dissophora was circumscribed by American mycologist Roland Thaxter in 1914.[2]

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Thaxter R. (1914). "New or peculiar Zygomycetes. 3: Blakeslea, Dissophora and Haplosporangium, nova genera". Botanical Gazette, Crawfordsville 58: 353–66.

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