Sparassis

The hens ( Sparassis ) is a fungal genus of the family of Gluck relatives ( Sparassidaceae ), which belongs to the family circle of Stielporlingsartigen.

Features

The fruiting body of the hens is a basal, pudgy Strunk, wearing flattened, leaf -like branches. The branches are coated on both sides with the fruit layer ( hymenium ).

Ecology

Species

Long, it was assumed that the kind of the cluck has three types, then, however, many new tropical species of the genus described in a short time, so that today nine types are known in the genus. The most closely related genus is the genus Sparassiella, a genus of Australian Gluck mushrooms.

Swell

  • Burdsall, HH Jr.; Miller, OK Jr.: Type Studies and nomenclatural Considerations in the genus Sparassis. ( pdf) In: Mycotaxon. 31, No. 1, 1988, pp. 199-206.
  • Wang, Z.; Binder, M.; Dai, Y.-C.; Hibbett, DS: Phylogenetic Relationships of Sparassis Inferred from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA and a protein -coding genes ( Rpb2 ). ( pdf) In: Mycologia. 96, No. 5, 2004, pp. 1015-1029.
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