Diplocystis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Boletales |
Suborder: | Sclerodermatineae |
Family: | Diplocystaceae |
Genus: |
Diplocystis Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1869) |
Type species | |
Diplocystis wrightii Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1869) |
Diplocystis is a genus of fungi in the Diplocystaceae family. The single species in the genus, Diplocystis wrightii, has been shown using phylogenetic analysis to be a member of the Sclerodermatineae suborder of the Boletales. The species was originally described in 1869 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis, from specimens collected in the Caribbean.