Adustomyces [SEP] parent taxon
Adustomyces
Adustomyces is a fungal genus in the family Pterulaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single resupinate species Adustomyces lusitanicus (originally named "Stereum repandum" var. "lusitanicum" by Camille Torrend in 1913), found in Europe and Africa. "Adustomyces" was described by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1979.
See also.
- List of Agaricales genera
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