Tomophagus

Tomophagus[1] is a Basidiomycete bracket-fungus genus in the family Ganodermataceae. The type species Tomophagus colossus, from the tropical Americas and Africa, has now been placed in the genus Ganoderma.

Tomophagus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: incertae sedis
Order: Polyporales
Family: Ganodermataceae
Genus: Tomophagus
Murrill, 1905
Species:
T. cattienensis
Binomial name
Tomophagus cattienensis
Le & Moncalvo, 2012

According to the Index Fungorum the remaining (monotypic) species is Tomophagus cattienensis.[2][3] The holotype of this was collected on tropical hardwood in Cát Tiên National Park, Vietnam, after-which it was named by its finders Ngoc Duong Pham and Le Xuan Tham; its placement was based on morphological evidence and ITS DNA barcoding.

References
  1. Murrill WA (1905). Tomophagus for Dendrophagus. Torreya 5: 197
  2. Le Xuan Tham, Quoc Hung Nguyen Le, Ngoc Duong Pham, Van Hop Duong, Dentinger BTM, Moncalvo JM (2012) Tomophagus cattienensis sp. nov., a new Ganodermataceae species from Vietnam: Evidence from morphology and ITS DNA barcodes. Mycological Progress 11(3): 777
  3. Species Fungorum (retrieved 5 July 2018)
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