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Haddowia

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Haddowia
Haddowia longipes from Vietnam
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Haddowia

Steyaert (1972)
Type species
Haddowia longipes
(Lév.) Steyaert (1972)
Species

H. aëtii
H. longipes
H. neurospora

Haddowia is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Ganodermataceae. The genus was circumscribed by Belgian mycologist René Léopold Steyaert in 1972, with Haddowia longipes (previously Amauroderma) as the type species. The genus name honors William Robert Haddow, "in view of his careful studies in the genus Ganoderma.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Steyaert RL. (1972). "Species of Ganoderma and related genera mainly of the Bogor and Leiden Herbaria". Persoonia. 7 (1): 55–118 (see pp. 108–11).
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