Wakefieldia

Wakefieldia
Wakefieldia macrospora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Wakefieldia Corner & Hawker
Type species
Wakefieldia striaespora Corner & Hawker
Species
W. macrospora W. striaespora

Wakefieldia is a genus of two species of fungi, generally thought to belong in the family Boletaceae, ^[1] but recent molecular study has shown that Wakefieldia macrospora is in fact not related to Boletales and belongs to family Hymenogastraceae. ^[2]

References

1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 728. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
2. Kaounas V, Assyov B, Alvarado P (2011). "New data on hypogeous fungi from Greece with special reference to Wakefieldia macrospora (Hymenogastraceae, Agaricales) and Geopora clausa (Pyronemataceae, Pezizales)". Mycologia Balcanica. 8: 105–113.