Tomophagus
(Redirected from Tomophagus cattienensis)
| Tomophagus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Subclass: | incertae sedis |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Ganodermataceae |
| Genus: | Tomophagus Murrill, 1905 |
| Species: | T. cattienensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tomophagus cattienensis | |
Tomophagus[1] is a Basidiomycete bracket-fungus genus in the family Ganodermataceae. The type species Tomophagus colossus, from the tropical Americas and Africa, has now been placed in the genus Ganoderma.
According to the Index Fungorum the remaining (monotypic) species is Tomophagus cattienensis.[2][3] The holotype of this was collected on tropical hardwood in Cát Tiên National Park, Vietnam, after-which it was named by its finders Ngoc Duong Pham and Le Xuan Tham; its placement was based on morphological evidence and ITS DNA barcoding.
References
[edit]- ^ Murrill WA (1905). Tomophagus for Dendrophagus. Torreya 5: 197
- ^ Le Xuan Tham, Quoc Hung Nguyen Le, Ngoc Duong Pham, Van Hop Duong, Dentinger BTM, Moncalvo JM (2012) Tomophagus cattienensis sp. nov., a new Ganodermataceae species from Vietnam: Evidence from morphology and ITS DNA barcodes. Mycological Progress 11(3): 777
- ^ Species Fungorum (retrieved 5 July 2018)
External links
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Media related to Ganodermataceae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Ganodermataceae at Wikispecies
