Sarcodon wrightii
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Thelephorales |
| Family: | Bankeraceae |
| Genus: | Sarcodon |
| Species: | S. wrightii
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| Sarcodon wrightii | |
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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]
References[edit]
- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy: Sarcodon wrightii (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Maas Geest". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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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