Dissophora

Dissophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Zygomycota
Subdivision:	Mucoromycotina
Order:	Mortierellales
Family:	Mortierellaceae
Genus:	Dissophora Thaxt. (1914)
Type species
Dissophora decumbens Thaxt. (1914)
Species
D. decumbens D. nadsonii D. ornata

Dissophora is a genus of fungi in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota. The genus is widespread in north temperate regions and contains three species.^[1] Dissophora was circumscribed by American mycologist Roland Thaxter in 1914.^[2]

References

1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
2. ^ Thaxter R. (1914). "New or peculiar Zygomycetes. 3: Blakeslea, Dissophora and Haplosporangium, nova genera". Botanical Gazette, Crawfordsville 58: 353–66. 

External links

• Dissophora in Index Fungorum.