Taiwanascus [SEP] parent taxon
Taiwanascus
Taiwanascus is a genus of fungi in the family Niessliaceae. It was circumscribed in 2007 to contain the type, "Taiwanascus tetrasporus", found growing on dead wood in Taipei, Taiwan. "T. samuelsii", described from the Western Ghats, India, was added to the genus in 2013.
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of