''Turbinellus fujisanensis'', previously known as ''Gomphus fujisanensis'', is a

mushroom A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. ''Toadstool'' generally denotes one poisonous to humans. The standard for the name "mushroom" is ...

in the family

Gomphaceae The Gomphaceae are a diverse family of fungi belonging in what is classically known as the Phallales The Phallales are an order of fungi in the subclass Phallomycetidae. The order contains two families: the Claustulaceae, and the Phallaceae ...

. It was originally described in 1941 by

Sanshi Imai was a Japanese mycologist of Hokkaido Imperial University. Eponymous taxa *'' Clitocybe imaiana'' *''Imaia ''Imaia'' is a fungal genus in the family Morchellaceae found in Japan, and in the Appalachian Mountains of the US. A monotypic genus ...

as a species of ''

Cantharellus ''Cantharellus'' is a genus of popular edible mushrooms, commonly known as chanterelles, a name which can also refer to the type species, '' Cantharellus cibarius''. They are mycorrhizal fungi, meaning they form symbiotic associations with plant ...

''. Admir Giachini transferred it to ''

Turbinellus ''Turbinellus'' is a genus of five species of fungi in the family Gomphaceae. Taxonomy ''Turbinellus'' was circumscribed by Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909. Of the three species originally placed in the genus he remarked "They constitute a strikin ...

'' in 2011. The genus ''Gomphus'', along with several others in the Gomphaceae, was reorganized in the 2010s after molecular analysis confirmed that the older

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines * Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts * Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...

-based classification did not accurately represent

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

relationships.

References

Gomphaceae Fungi of Japan Fungi described in 1941 Taxa named by Sanshi Imai {{Agaricomycetes-stub