Sarcodon portoricensis

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Sarcodon portoricensis
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Bankeraceae
Genus: Sarcodon
Species:
S. portoricensis
Binomial name
Sarcodon portoricensis
A.Grupe & T.J.Baroni (2015)

Sarcodon portoricensis is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. Found in Puerto Rico, where it grows on clay soils of low-elevation wet forests, it was described as new to science in 2015. [1]

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References

  1. Grupe AC; Baker AD; Uehling JK; Smith ME; Baroni TJ; Lodge DJ; Henkel TW. (2015). "Sarcodon in the Neotropics I: new species from Guyana, Puerto Rico and Belize". Mycologia. 107 (3): 591–606. doi:10.3852/14-185. PMID   25661714. S2CID   25900469.