Spongipellis

Spongipellis

Spongipellis pachyodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Polyporaceae
Genus:	Spongipellis Pat. (1874)
Type species
Spongipellis spumeus (Sowerby) Pat. (1887)

Spongipellis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. The genus is widely distributed and contains an estimated eight species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Narcisse Théophile Patouillard in 1887.^[2]

Species

S. africana
S. caseosus
S. chubutensis
S. delectans
S. litschaueri
S. malicola
S. pachyodon
S. spumeus
S. subcretaceus
S. unicolor

References

↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 652. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
↑ Patouillard N. (1887). Les Hyménomycètes d'Europe (in French). p. 140.

External links

Spongipellis in Index Fungorum

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.