Ryvardenia
Sign in to saveRyvardenia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It contains two species, Ryvardenia campyla and the type, Ryvardenia cretacea , formerly placed in the genus Polyporus. Ryvardenia was circumscribed by Argentinian botanist Mario Rachenberg in 1994.
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- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderPolyporales
- FamilyPolyporaceae
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Ryvardenia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It contains two species, Ryvardenia campyla and the type, Ryvardenia cretacea , formerly placed in the genus Polyporus. Ryvardenia was circumscribed by Argentinian botanist Mario Rachenberg in 1994.
The genus name of Ryvardenia is in honour of Leif Randulff Ryvarden (born 9 August 1935) who is a Norwegian mycologist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ryvardenia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.