Dissophora

Dissophora is a genus of fungi in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota. The genus is widespread in north temperate regions and contains three species.[1] Dissophora was circumscribed by American mycologist Roland Thaxter in 1914.[2]

Dissophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Zygomycota
Subdivision:
Mucoromycotina
Order:
Mortierellales
Family:
Mortierellaceae
Genus:
Dissophora

Thaxt. (1914)
Type species
Dissophora decumbens
Thaxt. (1914)
Species

D. decumbens
D. nadsonii
D. ornata

References
  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Thaxter R. (1914). "New or peculiar Zygomycetes. 3: Blakeslea, Dissophora and Haplosporangium, nova genera". Botanical Gazette, Crawfordsville. 58: 353–66.


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