Spongiforma [SEP] parent taxon
Spongiforma
Spongiforma is a genus of sponge-like fungi in the Boletaceae family. Newly described in 2009, the genus contains two species: "S. thailandica" and "S. squarepantsii". The type species "S. thailandica" is known only from Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand, where it grows in soil in old-growth forests dominated by dipterocarp trees. The rubbery fruit bodies, which has a strong odour of coal-tar similar to "Tricholoma sulphureum", consists of numerous internal cavities
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