Boninogaster

Boninogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hysterangiales
Family: Hysterangiaceae
Genus: Boninogaster
Kobayasi (1937)
Type species
Boninogaster phalloides
Kobayasi (1937)

Boninogaster is a genus of fungus in the Hysterangiaceae family. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Boninogaster phalloides, found in the Bonin Islands of Japan.[1] The genus and species were described by Japanese mycologist Yosio Kobayasi in 1937.[2]

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Kobayasi Y. (1937). "Fungi Austro-Japoniae et Micronesiae I" (PDF). Botanical Magazine Tokyo. 51: 749–58.


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