| Pegleromyces | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Tricholomataceae |
| Genus: | Pegleromyces (Singer) |
| Type species | |
| Pegleromyces collybioides Singer
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Pegleromyces is a genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Pegleromyces collybioides, found in Brazil,1 and described as new to science by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1981.2
The genus name of Pegleromyces is in honour of David Pegler (b.1938), who is a British mycologist.3
References
References
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 481. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- Singer R. (1981). "New genera of the Agaricales". Mycologia. 73 (3): 500–10. doi:10.2307/3759603.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.