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Genus of fungi

Sparassiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Sparassidaceae
Genus: Sparassiella
Schwarzman (1964)
Type species
Sparassiella longistipitata
Schwarzman (1964)

Sparassiella is a fungal genus in the family Sparassidaceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species Sparassiella longistipitata, described as new to science in 1964. This fungus is found in the former USSR. The type collection was made in Kazakhstan, where it was found growing on the dead wood of Scots pine.

References

  1. Schwarzman, S.R. (1964). Flora Sporowich Rastenii Kazachstana, Tom. IV: Auriculariales, Tremellales, Dacryomycetales, Exobasidiales, Aphyllophorales (in Russian). Alma Ata: Izdatel'stvo "Nauka". p. 159.
Taxon identifiers
Sparassiella


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