Sarcodon wrightii

Sarcodon wrightii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Bankeraceae
Genus: Sarcodon
Species:
S. wrightii
Binomial name
Sarcodon wrightii
Synonyms[1]
  • Hydnum wrightii Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1860)

Sarcodon wrightii is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was first described in 1860 by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis as Hydnum wrightii. They were sent a specimen collected from Japan as part of the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition (1853–56).[2] Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus transferred it to the genus Sarcodon in 1967. The fungus produces roughly spherical spores that are tuberculate (covered in warts) and measure 5.5–6.5 by 4.5–5.5 μm.[3]

References

  1. ^ "GSD Species Synonymy: Sarcodon wrightii (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Maas Geest". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
  2. ^ Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA. (1860). "Characters of new fungi, collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition by Charles Wright". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 4: 111–130 (see p. 122).
  3. ^ Maas Geesteranus RA. (1967). "Notes on Hydnums, VI". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 70: 61–72.


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