Family

Rhizopogonaceae

Rhizopogon occidentalis. Photo: (c) Damon Tighe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Rhizopogonaceae are a family of fungi in the order Boletales. The family, first named and described by botanists Ernst Albert Gäumann and Carroll William Dodge in 1928, contains 2 genera and 151 species. The genus Fevansia, formerly thought to belong in the Rhizopogonaceae, was found to belong in the Albatrellaceae in a molecular phylogenetics study.

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Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
  - Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
    - Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
      - Class: Agaricomycetes
        Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
        Order: Boletales (Boletes and allies)
        Suborder: Suillineae
        Family: Rhizopogonaceae
        Genus: Rhizopogon (4)

Subtaxa

Genus: Rhizopogon

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