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