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Sarcodon caliginosus

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Bankeraceae

Rank
  
Species

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Thelephorales

Genus
  
Sarcodon

Sarcodon caliginosus is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. Found in Papua New Guinea, it was described as new to science in 1974 by Dutch mycologist Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus. Its fruit bodies have dark grey-brown caps with reddish tinges and brownish-pink coloration at the margins.

References

Sarcodon caliginosus Wikipedia