Rhizopogonaceae

Rhizopogonaceae are a family of fungi in the order Boletales.[1] The family, first named and described by botanists Ernst Albert Gäumann and Carroll William Dodge in 1928,[2] contains 2 genera and 151 species.[3] The genus Fevansia, formerly thought to belong in the Rhizopogonaceae, was found to belong in the Albatrellaceae in a molecular phylogenetics study.[4]

Rhizopogonaceae
Rhizopogon rubescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Rhizopogonaceae Gäum. & C.W.Dodge (1928)
Type genus
Rhizopogon Fr. & Nordholm
Genera
Rhizopogon Rhopalogaster

References

1. Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford: CABI. pp. 313–14. ISBN 0-85199-827-5.
2. Gäumann EA, Dodge CW (1928). Comparative Morphology of Fungi. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. 468. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 599. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
4. Smith ME, Schell KJ, Castellano MA, Trappe MJ, Trappe JM (2013). "The enigmatic truffle Fevansia aurantiaca is an ectomycorrhizal member of the Albatrellus lineage" (PDF). Mycorrhiza. 23: 663–8. doi:10.1007/s00572-013-0502-2. PMID 23666521.