Loweomyces | |
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Loweomyces fractipes | |
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Genus: | Loweomyces |
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Loweomyces fractipes (
Berk. &
M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982)
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L. fractipes | |
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Loweomyces is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the Meruliaceae). [2]
It was originally circumscribed as a subgenus of Spongipellis by the Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdeněk Pouzar in 1976. [3] Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich promoted it to a genus segregate from Spongipellis in 1982, with two species: L. fractipes (the type), and L. wynneae. Jülich thought the genus should be distinct from Spongipellis based on the larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes. [4] L. fractipes and L. wynneae have had their generic positions confirmed with molecular phylogenetics, and both group in the "residual polyploid clade", one of four main lineages of the Polyporales. [2] [5] The genus is named in honour of American mycologist and polypore specialist Josiah Lincoln Lowe. [6]
Loweomyces is distinguished by the ease of spore germination in growth media, larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes, plates or spines, compared with European Spongipellis species. [4] Fruit bodies are either crust-like or have a cap and stipe. The hyphal system is either monomitic (possessing only generative hyphae) or dimitic (having both generative and pseudo-skeletal hyphae). [7]
The genus contained four species as of January 2015 [update]. [8] Two new species from Brazil were described in 2016. [7]
Loweomyces | |
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Loweomyces fractipes | |
Scientific classification | |
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Division: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | Loweomyces |
Type species | |
Loweomyces fractipes (
Berk. &
M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982)
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Species | |
L. fractipes | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Loweomyces is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the Meruliaceae). [2]
It was originally circumscribed as a subgenus of Spongipellis by the Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdeněk Pouzar in 1976. [3] Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich promoted it to a genus segregate from Spongipellis in 1982, with two species: L. fractipes (the type), and L. wynneae. Jülich thought the genus should be distinct from Spongipellis based on the larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes. [4] L. fractipes and L. wynneae have had their generic positions confirmed with molecular phylogenetics, and both group in the "residual polyploid clade", one of four main lineages of the Polyporales. [2] [5] The genus is named in honour of American mycologist and polypore specialist Josiah Lincoln Lowe. [6]
Loweomyces is distinguished by the ease of spore germination in growth media, larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes, plates or spines, compared with European Spongipellis species. [4] Fruit bodies are either crust-like or have a cap and stipe. The hyphal system is either monomitic (possessing only generative hyphae) or dimitic (having both generative and pseudo-skeletal hyphae). [7]
The genus contained four species as of January 2015 [update]. [8] Two new species from Brazil were described in 2016. [7]