Byssomerulius corium

Byssomerulius corium is a common species of crust fungus in the family Irpicaceae.[1] The fungus was first described as Thelephora corium by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1801. Erast Parmasto made it the type species of his newly circumscribed genus Byssomerulius in 1967.[2]

Byssomerulius corium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Irpicaceae
Genus:
Byssomerulius
Species:
B. corium
Binomial name
Byssomerulius corium
(Pers.) Parmasto (1967)
Synonyms
  • Thelephora corium Pers. (1801)

Distribution

Byssomerulius corium is a highly distributed fungus, and has been recorded in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and in South, Central, and North America.[3]

References
  1. Justo, Alfredo; Miettinen, Otto; Floudas, Dimitrios; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Lindner, Daniel; Nakasone, Karen; Niemelä, Tuomo; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Ryvarden, Leif; Hibbett, David S. (2017). "A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota)". Fungal Biology. 121 (9): 798–824. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010. PMID 28800851.
  2. Parmasto, E. (1967). "Corticiaceae URSS IV. Descriptiones taxorum novorum. Combinationes novae". Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised, Biologica (in Latin). 16: 383.
  3. Zmitrovich, Ivan V.; Spirin, Wjacheslav A.; Wasser, Solomon, P. (2006). "Variability of Byssomerulius corium in the Mediterranean". Mycotaxon. 97: 83–90.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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