Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes | Division Basidiomycota Rank Genus | |
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Similar Abortiporus, Flaviporus, Sarcodontia, Crustoderma, Hypochnicium | ||
Loweomyces fractipes fungi kingdom
Loweomyces is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the Meruliaceae).
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Loweomyces fungi kingdom
Taxonomy
It was originally circumscribed as a subgenus of Spongipellis by the Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdeněk Pouzar in 1976. Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich promoted it to a genus segregate from Spongipellis in 1982. The genus is named in honour of American mycologist and polypore specialist Josiah Lincoln Lowe.
Description
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. 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).
Species
The genus contained four species as of January 2015. Two new species from Brazil were described in 2016.