Loweomyces
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| Loweomyces | |
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| Loweomyces fractipes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Steccherinaceae |
| Genus: | Loweomyces (Kotl. & Pouzar) Jülich (1982) |
| Type species | |
| Loweomyces fractipes (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982) | |
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L. fractipes | |
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Loweomyces is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the Meruliaceae).[2]
It was originally circumscribed as a subgenus of Spongipellis by the Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdeněk Pouzar in 1976.[3] Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich promoted it to a genus segregate from Spongipellis in 1982, with two species: L. fractipes (the type), and L. wynneae. Jülich thought the genus should be distinct from Spongipellis based on the larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes.[4] L. fractipes and L. wynneae have had their generic positions confirmed with molecular phylogenetics, and both group in the "residual polyploid clade", one of four main lineages of the Polyporales.[2][5] The genus is named in honour of American mycologist and polypore specialist Josiah Lincoln Lowe.[6]
