Genus Byssomerulius
[band-aid crust and relatives]
This genus has about eleven species. We have one or two species known in the Chicago Region, depending on which ones you include in this genus.
- Byssomerulius corium is whitish and can be confused with Irpex.
- Byssomerulius incarnatus [Phlebia incarnata] has a beautiful pink cap.
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Byssomerulius , Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised Bioloogia 16(4): 383 (1967). Type: Thelephora corium Pers., Synopsis methodica fungorum: 574 (1801).
- Taxonomy
- Byssomerulius was considered a synonym of Meruliopsis by Ginns (1998) but the type species of that genus, Meruliopsis taxicola, was moved to Gloeoporus by Gilbertson and Ryvarden in 1985.
- Note. An alternate name of the publication is listed as: Byssomerulius Parmasto, Izv. Akad. Nauk Estonsk. SSR, Ser. Biol. 16: 383 (1967). The full citation for the paper is: Parmasto, E.H. [as Пармасто, Э.Х.] (1967). Corticiaceae URSS. IV. Descriptiones taxorum novorum. Combinationes novae. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised Bioloogia 16 (4): 377-394.
- Related links
- Gilbertson, R. L., L. Ryvarden. 1985. Some new combinations in Polyporaceae. Mycotaxon. 22(2): 363-365.
- Ginns, J. 1998. Genera of the North American Corticiaceae Sensu Lato. Mycologia 90(1): 1-35. DOI: 10.2307/3761008
- Taxon links
- 17209 Byssomerulius
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum