Sarcodon rutilus

Sarcodon rutilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Bankeraceae
Genus: Sarcodon
Species: S. rutilus
Binomial name
Sarcodon rutilus
Maas Geest. (1974)

Sarcodon rutilus is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. Found in Papua New Guinea, it was described as new to science in 1974 by Dutch mycologist Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus. The specific epithet rutilus refers to the red cap.[1]

References

  1. Maas Geesteranus RA. (1974). "Hydnaceous fungi of the eastern Old World. Supplement". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C 77: 477–495 (see p. 487).

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