''Climacodon'' is a widespread

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of tooth fungi in the family

Phanerochaetaceae The Phanerochaetaceae are a family of mostly crust fungi in the order Polyporales. Taxonomy Phanerochaetaceae was first conceived by Swedish mycologist John Eriksson in 1958 as the subfamily Phanerochaetoideae of the Corticiaceae. It was late ...

Taxonomy

The genus was

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by Finnish mycologist

Petter Karsten Petter Adolf Karsten (16 February 1834 – 22 March 1917) was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology". Karsten was born in Merimasku near Turku, s ...

in 1881 with ''Climacodon septentrionalis'' as the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

. This fungus was originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1821 as ''Hydnum septentrionale''. ''Climacodon'' has been placed variously in the family Meruliaceae, or in the

. Molecular analysis places ''Climacodon'' as a member of the Phlebioid clade.

Species

*'' Climacodon annamensis'' (Har. & Pat.) Maas Geest. (1974) *'' Climacodon chlamydocystis'' Maas Geest. (1971) *'' Climacodon dubitativus'' (Lloyd) Ryvarden (1992) – Philippines *'' Climacodon pulcherrimus'' (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Nikol. (1961) *'' Climacodon roseomaculatus'' (Henn. & E.Nyman) Jülich (1982) *'' Climacodon sanguineus'' (Beeli) Maas Geest. (1971) *'' Climacodon septentrionalis'' (Fr.) P.Karst. (1881)

References

Phanerochaetaceae Polyporales genera Taxa named by Petter Adolf Karsten Taxa described in 1881 {{Polyporales-stub