- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Dacryopinax elegans (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) G.W. Martin
- Scientific name
- Dacryopinax elegans
- Author
- (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) G.W. Martin
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Dacrymycetes
- Order
- Dacrymycetales
- Family
- Dacrymycetaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Renato Lúcio Alvarenga
- Comments etc.
- Renato Lúcio Alvarenga, Tatiana Gibertoni
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Dacryopinax elegans is easily distinguished by the reddish-brown basidiomata and the thin context, as well as by the shape of some immature specimens (orbicular or cochleariform) and the 3 septa in the spores.
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 19 countries. In Brazil, it is known in 8 of the 26 states.
Population and Trends
There are about 248 records of this species in GBIF, being 56 of them in Brazil.
Population Trend:
Habitat and Ecology
American species. In Brazil, the species is found in Amazon Forest, Atlantic Rain Forest and Cerrado.
Threats
In Brazil, this species is mostly distributed in pluvial forest domain. However, the Amazon has currently the highest rates of deforestation in the last decades and the Atlantic Forest is already a hotspot.
Conservation Actions
About 2/3 of the records in Brazil are in unprotected areas.
Research needed
In Brazil, more areas in should be studied in Cerrado, since this species seems to be rare in this biome.
Use and Trade
The species was evaluated for the production of ligninases and herbicide degradation, with promising results (Arakaki et al. 2013).
Bibliography
Country occurrence
Regional Population and Trends
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