Biology:Diplocystis

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Diplocystis
Diplocystis wrightii2.jpg
Diplocystis wrightii
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Diplocystaceae
Genus: Diplocystis
Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1869)
Type species
Diplocystis wrightii
Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1869)

Diplocystis is a genus of fungi in the Diplocystaceae family. The single species in the genus, Diplocystis wrightii, has been shown using phylogenetic analysis to be a member of the Sclerodermatineae suborder of the Boletales.[1] The species was originally described in 1869 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis, from specimens collected in the Caribbean.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2405549 entry