Dissoderma

Dissoderma
Dissoderma odoratum, Finland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Squamanitaceae
Genus: Dissoderma
(A.H. Sm. & Singer) Singer (1973)
Type species
Dissoderma paradoxum
(A.H. Sm. & Singer) Singer (1973)
Species
Synonyms
  • Coolia Huijsman (1943) nom. inval.
  • Cystoderma subg. Dissoderma A.H. Sm. & Singer (1948)

Dissoderma is a genus of parasitic fungi in the family Squamanitaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) superficially resemble normal agarics (gilled mushrooms) but emerge from parasitized fruit bodies of deformed host agarics.