Climacodon pulcherrimus

Climacodon pulcherrimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Phanerochaetaceae
Genus: Climacodon
Species: C. pulcherrimus
Binomial name
Climacodon pulcherrimus
(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Nikol. (1961)
Synonyms
  • Hydnum pulcherrimum Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1849)
  • Hydnum gilvum Berk. (1851)
  • Hydnum uleanum Henn. (1897)
  • Steccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker (1906)
  • Hydnum kauffmani Peck (1907)
  • Creolophus pulcherrimus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker (1913)
  • Hydnum australe Lloyd (1919)
  • Dryodon pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Pilát (1934)
  • Donkia pulcherrima (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Pilát (1937)

Climacodon pulcherrimus is a species of tooth fungus in the family Phanerochaetaceae. It was first described as a species of Hydnum by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1849.[1] T.L. Nikolajeva transferred it to its current genus Climacodon in 1962,[2] but research published in 2007 suggests it should be placed in a different genus.[3] It is widely distributed in subtropical and tropical areas, where it grows on decomposing hardwoods, causing a white rot.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA. (1849). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXIII and XXIV. North and South Carolina Fungi". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 1: 234–9.
  2. ↑ Nikolajeva TL. (1961). Flora plantarum cryptogamarum URSS. Fungi. Familia Hydnaceae (in Russian) 6(2). Moscow, Leningrad. p. 194.
  3. ↑ Moreno G, Blanco MN, Olariaga I, Checa J. (2007). "Climacodon pulcherrimus a badly known tropical species, present in Europe". Cryptogamie Mycologie 28 (1): 3–11.
  4. ↑ Kuo M (May 2010). "Climacodon pulcherrimus". MushroomExpert.com. Retrieved 2014-08-08.

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