Loweomyces

Loweomyces
Loweomyces fractipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Meruliaceae
Genus: Loweomyces
(Kotl. & Pouzar) Jülich (1982)
Type species
Loweomyces fractipes
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982)
Species

L. fractipes
L. sibiricus
L. subgiganteus
L. wynneae

Synonyms[1]
  • Spongipellis subgen. Loweomyces Kotlába & Pouzar (1976)[2]

Loweomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Meruliaceae. It was circumscribed by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1982 as a genus segregate from Spongipellis, distinguished by the ease of spore germination in growth media, larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes, plates or spines, compared with European Spongipellis species.[3] The genus contains four species as of January 2015.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Loweomyces (Kotl. & Pouzar) Jülich". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
  2. ↑ Kotlába F, Pouzar Z. (1976). "On the taxonomic position of Polyporus fractipes". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 28: 119–28.
  3. ↑ Jülich W. (1982). "Notes on some Basidiomycetes (Aphyllophorales and Heterobasidiomycetes)". Persoonia 11 (4): 421–8.
  4. ↑ Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 22nd December 2014). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2015-01-28.

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