Heliogaster

Heliogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Heliogaster
Orihara & Iwase
Type species
Heliogaster columellifer
(Kobayasi) Orihara & Iwase

Heliogaster is a sequestrate genus of fungi in the Boletaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Heliogaster columellifer, found in Japan. The genus was first described in 2010, to accommodate the species formerly named Octaviania columellifera by Kobayasi in 1937.[1]

References

  1. Orihara T, Sawada F, Ikeda S, Yamato M, Tanaka C, Shimomura N, Hashiya M. Iwase K. (2010). "Taxonomic reconsideration of a sequestrate fungus, Octaviania columellifera, with the proposal of a new genus, Heliogaster, and its phylogenetic relationships in the Boletales". Mycologia 102 (1): 108–121. doi:10.3852/08-168. PMID 20120234.

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