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Taxa named by Derek Reid

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Lachnocladiaceae
The Lachnocladiaceae are a family of fungi in the order Russulales. Based on 2025 data, this family currently only includes a single genus and three species. Other genera that belonged in the family in the past have been moved to Peniophoraceae based on latest molecular phylogenetic studies.
Dichomitus
Dichomitus is a genus of poroid crust fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It was circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1965.
Plicaturopsis
Plicaturopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Amylocorticiaceae. The genus was circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1964. In 2023 P. scarlatina was reclassified to Phlebia making P. crispa the only described species in the genus.
Tremella globispora
species of fungus
Vanderbylia
Vanderbylia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It was circumscribed by British mycologist Derek Reid in 1973.
Calocera pallidospathulata
species of fungus
Hydnopolyporus
Hydnopolyporus is a genus of two species of fungi. The genus was circumscribed in 1962 by English mycologist Derek Reid with H. fimbriatus as the type species.
Stereopsis
genus of fungi
Carcinomyces polyporinus
species of fungus
Inflatostereum
Inflatostereum is a genus of two species of polypore fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae. The genus was circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1965.
Cyphellostereum
Cyphellostereum is a genus of basidiolichens. Species produce white, somewhat cup-shaped fruit bodies on a thin film of green on soil which is the thallus. All Cyphellostereum species have nonamyloid spores and tissues, lack clamp connections, and also lack hymenial cystidia.
Echinochaete
Echinochaete is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. Circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1963, the genus is widespread in tropical regions and contains five species.
Skeletocutis azorica
species of fungus
Agrogaster
Agrogaster is a fungal genus in the family Bolbitiaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single secotioid species Agrogaster coneae, described from New Zealand in 1986 by mycologist Derek Reid. The generic name Agrogaster combines "Agro", referring to the genus Agrocybe (from which it is thought to be derived), and "gaster", alluding to its gasteroid nature.
Coralloderma
Coralloderma is a genus of fungi in the family Meruliaceae. The genus contains two species found in Asia and Australia.