Dissoderma
Genus of fungi
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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.
| Dissoderma | |
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| Dissoderma odoratum, Finland | |
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| 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) | |
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Taxonomy
Dissoderma was created in 1948 as a subgenus of Cystoderma and raised to generic rank in 1973. Though French mycologist Marcel Bon recognized and expanded the genus in 1999,[1] most other mycologists considered Dissoderma synonymous with Squamanita.[2] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has however confirmed Dissoderma as a genus distinct from Squamanita. A number of species previously referred to Squamanita have accordingly been transferred to Dissoderma.[2]