''Byssomerulius corium'' is a common species of

crust fungus The corticioid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota typically having effused, smooth basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that are formed on the undersides of dead tree trunks or branches. They are sometimes colloquially called crust fungi or pa ...

in the family

Irpicaceae The Irpicaceae are a family of mostly polypores and crust fungi in the order Polyporales. Taxonomy The family was circumscribed in 2003 by mycologists Viacheslav Spirin and Ivan Zmitrovich. The type genus is '' Irpex''. Later multi-gene phylogen ...

. The fungus was first described as ''Thelephora corium'' by

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immig ...

in 1801.

Erast Parmasto Erast Parmasto (28 October 1928 – 24 April 2012) was a noted Estonian mycologist, bioscientist and botanist and onetime director of the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany. Parmasto was born in Nõmme. He became a member of the Estonian I ...

made it the

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of his newly

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...

genus ''

Byssomerulius ''Byssomerulius'' is a widely distributed genus of crust fungi. Taxonomy ''Byssomerulius'' was circumscribed by Estonian mycologist Erast Parmasto in 1967. Although traditionally classified in the family Phanerochaetaceae, recent molecular phylo ...

'' in 1967.

Distribution

''Byssomerulius corium'' is a highly distributed fungus, and has been recorded in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and in South, Central, and North America.

References

Fungi of Africa Fungi of Asia Fungi of Australia Fungi of Central America Fungi of Europe Fungi of South America Fungi of North America Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Irpicaceae Fungi described in 1801 {{Polyporales-stub