Serpula (Fungi)

Serpula himantioides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Boletales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Basidiomycota Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina Classis: Agaricomycetes Subclassis: Agaricomycetidae Ordo: Boletales

Familia: Serpulaceae
Genus: Serpula
Species: S. atrovirens – S. byssoidea – S. costaricensis – S. crassa – S. cyatheicola – S. dendrocalami – S. erecta – S. eurocephala – S. fuscescens – S. himantioides – S. lacrymans – S. olivacea – S. sclerotiorum – S. similis – S. tignicola – S. umbrina

Name

Serpula (Pers.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 637 (1821)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Merulius sect. Serpula Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 496 (1801)
• Heterotypic
  • Gyrophana Pat., Cat. Rais. Pl. Cellul. Tunisie (Paris): 53 (1897)
  • Gyrophora Pat., Hyménomyc. Eur. (Paris): 143 (1887), nom. illeg. (homonym of Gyrophora Ach. 1803)
  • Plicaturella Murrill, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 9(3): 172 (1910)
  • Xylomyzon Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 2: 26 (1825)
  • Xylophagus Link, Mag. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 3(1-2): 38 (1809)

References

Primary references

• Gray, S.F. 1821. A natural arrangement of British plants, according to their relations to each other, as pointed out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. including those cultivated for use; with an introduction to botany, in which the terms newly introduced are explained; illustrated by figures. 1: i–xxviii, 1–824, pls. I–XXI. BHL Reference page. 

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