Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Rank Genus | Division Basidiomycota Family Rhizopogonaceae Order Boletales | |
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Rhopalogaster is a genus of hypogeous Basidiomycetes. The genus is monotypic, and contains the single species Rhopalogaster transversarium, found in the USA. This fungus was originally described as new to science in 1811 by French botanist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc; Elias Magnus Fries transferred it to Cauloglossum in 1829. The genus was defined in 1902 by John Robert Johnston.
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