- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Flavodon flavus (Klotzsch) Ryvarden
- Scientific name
- Flavodon flavus
- Author
- (Klotzsch) Ryvarden
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Meruliaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Renato Lúcio Alvarenga
- Comments etc.
- Renato Lúcio Alvarenga, Tatiana Gibertoni
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Flavodon flavus is easily recognize due to yellowish colour in the basidiomata and context when fresh, reddish to browish with KOH, hydnoid hymenohore, dimitic system, skeletal hyphae hyaline, thick-walled, cystidia dominating in the hymenium, apical encrusted, and basidiopspores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, 5.5-6.5 x 3-4.5 um, thin-walled (Ryvarden, 1973).
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 37 countries and about 40% of the records are in Australia.
Population and Trends
There are about 383 records of this species in GBIF, most of them in the Australia.
Population Trend:
Habitat and Ecology
In Brazil, the species is found in Amazon Forest and Atlantic Forest.
Threats
In Brazil, this species is moslty recorded in the Atlantic Forest, a hotspot.
Conservation Actions
About 1/3 of the records in Brazil are in unprotected areas.
Research needed
Other areas should be studied in order to assess the distribution of this species.
Use and Trade
Published experiments with Flavodon flavus isolates have shown that this species has the potential for the production of lignocellulosic enzymes (Nakamura, 2008; Padhiar et al., 2010; Klaiklay et al., 2013)
Bibliography
Known distribution - countries
Regional Population and Trends
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