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Sarcodon wrightii

Sarcodon wrightii is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was first described in 1860 by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis as Hydnum wrightii. They were sent a specimen collected from Japan as part of the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition (1853–56). Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus transferred it to the genus Sarcodon in 1967. The fungus produces roughly spherical spores that are tuberculate and measure 5.5–6.5 by 4.5–5.5 μm.

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Sarcodon wrightii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Bankeraceae
Genus: Sarcodon
Species:
S. wrightii
Binomial name
Sarcodon wrightii
Synonyms1
  • Hydnum wrightii Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1860)

Sarcodon wrightii is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was first described in 1860 by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis as Hydnum wrightii. They were sent a specimen collected from Japan as part of the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition (1853–56).2 Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus transferred it to the genus Sarcodon in 1967. The fungus produces roughly spherical spores that are tuberculate (covered in warts) and measure 5.5–6.5 by 4.5–5.5 μm.3

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References

  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Sarcodon wrightii (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Maas Geest". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
  2. Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA. (1860). "Characters of new fungi, collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition by Charles Wright". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 4: 111–130 (see p. 122).
  3. Maas Geesteranus RA. (1967). "Notes on Hydnums, VI". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 70: 61–72.
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