Boninogaster

Boninogaster is a genus of fungus in the Hysterangiaceae family. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Boninogaster phalloides, found in the Bonin Islands of Japan.[1] The genus and species were described by Japanese mycologist Yosio Kobayasi in 1937.[2]

Boninogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Hysterangiales
Family:
Hysterangiaceae
Genus:
Boninogaster

Kobayasi (1937)
Type species
Boninogaster phalloides
Kobayasi (1937)

References
  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Kobayasi Y. (1937). "Fungi Austro-Japoniae et Micronesiae I" (PDF). Botanical Magazine Tokyo. 51: 749–58.


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