Pleurotus placentodes (Berk.) Sacc., 1887
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Agaricus placentodes Berk. (1852) (basionym); Dendrosarcus placentodes (Berk.) Kuntze. (1898)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1849
Rediscovered in 2013 (specimens collected 2009-2010) (Liu et al., 2016)
Distribution
China (southwestern) & Sikkim, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
epitype:
HKAS 57145 (Liu et al., 2016)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Saccardo, P. A. (1887). Sylloge Hymenomycetum, Vol. I. Agaricineae. Sylloge Fungorum 5: 1-1146.
Other references:
Berkeley, M.J. (1852) Decades of fungi, XXXVII, XXXVIII. Sikkim and Khassya fungi. Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 4: 97-107.
Liu, Xiao-Bin, Li, Jing, Horak, Egon and Yang, Zhu L. (2016). Pleurotus placentodes, originally described from Sikkim, rediscovered after 164 years. Phytotaxa 267(2): 137-145. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.267.2.6
Pegler, D. N. (1977). Pleurotus (Agaricales) in India, Nepal and Pakistan. Kew Bulletin 31: 501-510. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4119394
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