Rhopalogaster

Rhopalogaster
Rhopalogaster transversarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Rhizopogonaceae
Genus:
Rhopalogaster

Type species
Rhopalogaster transversarium
(Bosc) J.R.Johnst. (1902)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lycoperdon transversarium Bosc (1811)
  • Cauloglossum transversarium (Bosc) Fr. (1829)

Rhopalogaster is a genus of secotioid basidiomycetes. The genus is monotypic, and contains the single species Rhopalogaster transversarium, found in the USA.[2] This fungus was originally described as new to science in 1811 by French botanist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc; Elias Magnus Fries transferred it to Cauloglossum in 1829. The genus was properly defined in 1902 by John Robert Johnston.[3]

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