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Ceraceopsis

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Ceraceopsis is a fungal genus in the class Agaricomycetes. It has not yet been placed in any order or family. A monotypic genus, it contains the single corticioid species Ceraceopsis verruculosa, found growing on dead deciduous wood in Venezuela. The type collection was made in June 1997, in Yutajé (Amazonas State). Ceraceopsis was circumscribed by mycologists Kurt Hjortstam and Leif Ryvarden in 2007.[1]

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Ceraceopsis
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: incertae sedis
Genus: Ceraceopsis
Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2007)
Type species
Ceraceopsis verruculosa
Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2007)
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