Xylobolus

Xylobolus
Xylobolus frustulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Stereaceae
Genus: Xylobolus
P.Karst. (1881)
Type species
Xylobolus frustulatus
(Pers.) Boidin (1958)
Species

X. annosus
X. frustulatus
X. hiugensis
X. illudens
X. princeps
X. spectabilis
X. subpileatus
X. thoenii

Xylobolus is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae family. The Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008) estimated the genus to contain three widely distributed species;[1] another, X. thoenii, was added in 2011.[2] The genus was circumscribed by Petter Karsten in 1881.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. ^ Tura DA, Zmitrovich IV, Wasser SP, Spirin WA, Nevo E. (2011). Biodiversity of the Heterobasidiomycetes and non-gilled Hymenomycetes (former Aphyllophorales) of Israel. Biodiversity of cyanoprocaryotes, algae and fungi of Israel. Ruggel: Gantner Verlag. pp. 323. ISBN 9783906166995. 
  3. ^ Karsten P. (1881). "Symbolae ad mycologiam Fennicam. VIII" (in Latin). Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 6: 7–13. 

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