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Rhizopogonaceae

Rhizopogonaceae
Rhizopogon rubescens.jpg
Rhizopogon rubescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Rhizopogonaceae
Gäum. & C.W.Dodge (1928)
Type genus
Rhizopogon
Fr. & Nordholm
Genera

Rhizopogon
Rhopalogaster


Rhizopogon
Rhopalogaster

Rhizopogonaceae are a family of fungi in the order Boletales. The family, first named and described by botanists Ernst Albert Gäumann and Carroll William Dodge in 1928, contains 2 genera and 151 species. The genus Fevansia, formerly thought to belong in the Rhizopogonaceae, was found to belong in the Albatrellaceae in a molecular phylogenetics study.



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