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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina
Classis: Agaricomycetes
Subclassis: Agaricomycetidae
Ordo: Agaricales
Subordo: Tricholomatineae

Familia: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Porpoloma

Porpoloma is a genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae. The genus contains about 12 species found predominantly in South America.[1] Porpoloma was described by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1952 with P. sejunctum as the type species.[2]
Species

Porpoloma adrianii
Porpoloma amyloideum
Porpoloma aranzadii
Porpoloma bambusarum
Porpoloma boninense
Porpoloma coyan
Porpoloma elytroides
Porpoloma juncicola
Porpoloma mesotephrum
Porpoloma penetrans
Porpoloma pes-caprae
Porpoloma portentosum
Porpoloma sejunctum
Porpoloma spinulosum
Porpoloma terreum


See also

Fungi portal

List of Tricholomataceae genera

References

Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 559. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
Singer R. (1952). "The agarics of the Argentine sector of Tierra del Fuego and limitrophous regions of the Magallanes area". Sydowia. 6 (1–4): 165–226 (see p. 198).

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