Cyclomyces Kunze ex Fr. 1830

Details

Name scientific

Cyclomyces Kunze ex Fr., Linnaea 5 512 (1830)

Preferred name

Hymenochaete Lév. 1846

Nomenclature

Original authors

Fr.

Authors

Kunze ex Fr.

Publication place

Fries, E.M. 1830: Eclogae fungorum, praecipue ex herbariis germanorum de scriptorum. Linnaea 5: 497-553.

Year published

1830

Publication page

512

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Sanctioning reference

Fries, E.M. 1832: Systema Mycologicum. Index Alphabeticus. Moritz. 202 p.

Sanctioning page(s)

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cyclomyces Kunze ex Fr. 1830

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Cyclomyces

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Hymenochaetales

Family

Hymenochaetaceae

Genus

Cyclomyces

Subordinates

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Cyclomyces Kunze ex Fr. 1830

Notes

Superficially very similar to Inonotus with brown, thin, bracket-like, poroid fruiting bodies, but fruiting bodies of Cyclomyces are much thinner and more flexible than those of Inonotus.

A single common species in New Zealand.

Notes

Polypore fungi with a thin, imbricate, bracket-like fruiting bodies on fallen wood. Causing a white rot. The only New Zealand species, C. tabacinus, is common on a range of native and exotic hosts.