Tremellogaster
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Tremellogaster is a fungal genus
in the Diplocystaceae
family. A monotypic
genus, it contains the single species Tremellogaster surinamensis, known from Surinam and Guyana
.
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...
in the Diplocystaceae
Diplocystaceae
Diplocystaceae is a family of fungi in the Boletales order. The family was described by mycologist Hanns Kreisel in 1974....
family. A 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...
genus, it contains the single species Tremellogaster surinamensis, known from Surinam and Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
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