Smithiomyces

Smithiomyces
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Smithiomyces
Singer (1944)
Type species
Smithiomyces mexicanus
(Murrill) Singer (1944)
Species

S. dominicanus
S. lanosofarinosus
S. mexicanus

Smithiomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. It was circumscribed by Rolf Singer in 1944. The type species, S. mexicanus, was formerly placed in Amanita, as well as the now obsolete Leucomyces and Venenarius. The genus was named to honor American mycologist Alexander H. Smith.[1] S. dominicanus was described from the Dominican Republic in 2015.[2]

See also

References

  1. Singer R. (1944). "New genera of fungi. I". Mycologia. 36 (4): 358–68. doi:10.2307/3754752.
  2. Justo A, Angelini C, Bizzi A (2015). "Smithiomyces dominicanus (Agaricales: Agaricaceae), a new species from the Dominican Republic". Phytotaxa. 226 (1). doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.226.1.9.


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