Sirobasidium magnum
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| Sirobasidium magnum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Sirobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Sirobasidium |
| Species: | S. magnum |
| Binomial name | |
| Sirobasidium magnum Boedijn (1934) | |
Sirobasidium magnum is a species of fungus in the order Tremellales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are gelatinous, lobed to foliose (leaf-like) and appear to be parasitic on ascomycetous fungi on wood. No other Sirobasidium species has such large fruit bodies.[1] The species was originally described from Indonesia, but has been reported from elsewhere in Asia and also in Australia and North America.
Sirobasidium magnum was described from Borneo and Java in 1934 by Dutch mycologist Karel Boedijn.[2]