Dictyocephalos
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Dictyocephalos is a genus
of fungi in the Phelloriniaceae
family of the Agaricales
order. The genus is monotypic
, and contains the single species Dictyocephalos attenuatus, described by the American botanist Lucien Marcus Underwood
in 1901 (as D. curvatus).
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of fungi in the Phelloriniaceae
Phelloriniaceae
The Phelloriniaceae are a family of fungi in the Agaricales order. The family contains two monotypic genera, Dictyocephalos, and Phellorinia. The family was circumscribed by the German botanist Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich in 1951....
family of the Agaricales
Agaricales
The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms , or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13000 described species, along with five extinct genera known only from the fossil record...
order. The genus is monotypic
Monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group with only one biological type. The term's usage differs slightly between botany and zoology. The term monotypic has a separate use in conservation biology, monotypic habitat, regarding species habitat conversion eliminating biodiversity and...
, and contains the single species Dictyocephalos attenuatus, described by the American botanist Lucien Marcus Underwood
Lucien Marcus Underwood
Lucien Marcus Underwood was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.-Biography:He was born in New Woodstock, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University...
in 1901 (as D. curvatus).