''Gloeohypochnicium'' is a
genus of wood-inhabiting
crust fungi of uncertain
familial
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placement in the order
Russulales. Originally conceived by
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 ...
as a
subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
of ''
Hypochnicium
''Hypochnicium'' is a genus of corticioid fungi in the family Meruliaceae. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist John Eriksson in 1958.
Species
*''Hypochnicium albostramineum'' (Bres.) Hallenb. (1985)
*'' Hypochnicium aotearoae'' B.C.Paul ...
'',
Kurt Hjortstam considered it worthy of distinct generic status in 1987.
The
type species, ''
G. analogum'', was
described as new to science in 1913 by French mycologists
Hubert Bourdot and
Amédée Galzin as a species of ''
Gloeocystidium''.
''
G. versatum'' was added to the genus in 2010.
References
Russulales
Russulales genera
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