Parmastomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdenek Pouzar in 1964, with Tyromyces kravtzevianus Bondartzev & Parm. as the type species. Parmastomyces species cause a brown rot. The genus has a monomitic hyphal system.[1]
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| Parmastomyces transmutans | |
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| Parmastomyces kravtzevianus (Bondartsev & Parmasto) Kotl. & Pouzar (1964)
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The genus name of Parmastomyces is in honour of Erast Parmasto (1928–2012), who was an Estonian mycologist, bio-scientist and botanist and onetime director of the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Paul Claude Silva in Taxon vol.8 on page 63 in 1959.
Species
edit- Parmastomyces corticola Corner (1989)
- Parmastomyces deceptivus Corner (1989)
- Parmastomyces glutinosus Corner (1989)
- Parmastomyces kravtzevianus (Bondartsev & Parmasto) Kotl. & Pouzar (1964) – Europe
- Parmastomyces mollissimus (Maire) Pouzar (1984) – Europe
- Parmastomyces taxi (Bondartsev) Y.C.Dai & Niemelä (1995)
- Parmastomyces umbrinus Corner (1989)
References
edit- ^ Kotlába, F.; Pouzar, Z. (1964). "Staining spores of Homobasidiomycetes in cotton blue and its importance for taxonomy". Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. 69: 131–142.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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