Rhopalogaster | |
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Rhopalogaster transversarium | |
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Genus: | Rhopalogaster
J.R.Johnst. (1902)
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Rhopalogaster transversarium (
Bosc) J.R.Johnst. (1902)
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Rhopalogaster is a genus of secotioid basidiomycetes. The genus is monotypic, and contains the single species Rhopalogaster transversarium, found in the USA. [2] This fungus was originally described as new to science in 1811 by French botanist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc; Elias Magnus Fries transferred it to Cauloglossum in 1829. The genus was properly defined in 1902 by John Robert Johnston. [3]