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Dichopleuropus spathulatus D.A. Reid
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- Scientific name
- Dichopleuropus spathulatus
- Author
- D.A. Reid
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Russulales
- Family
- Lachnocladiaceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2023-05-08
- IUCN Red List Category
- DD
- Assessors
- Susana C. Gonçalves; Susana Cunha (RBG Kew and University of Coimbrta, Portugal)
- Reviewers
- Gregory Mueller (Chicago Botanic Garden / IUCN SSC Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball Specialist Group)
Assessment Notes
The content on this page is fetched from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/266015678/266020282
Justification
Dichopleuropus spathulatus is a species with an apparently very wide distribution, as it has been found in Singapore, Taiwan, Province of China, China, the United States of America and Brazil. However, it is only known from six sites and has not been recorded in four of these locations in over 50 years. Very little information is available on its habitat preferences and ecology. While it is possible that this species remains widespread but poorly documented, the lack of recent records in most known localities could imply that its distribution and population size are now much more restricted. More recent records are needed, and so the species is assessed as Data Deficient (DD).Taxonomic notes
Dichopleuropus spathulatus is the type species of Dichopleuropus, a monotypic genus (Species Fungorum 2023). It was described in 1965 and is partly characterized by its microscopic characteristics, namely its hyphal system (Qin et al. 2009).Geographic range
This species has been documented in Singapore, Taiwan, Province of China, the United States of America (Florida) (Wu and Chou 1995), Brazil (Mato Grosso) (Welden 1993) and China (Yunnan Province) (Qin et al. 2009).Population and Trends
Dichopleuropus spathulatus has only been found in approximately six sites. Its most recent documented observations were in China in 2005 (Quin et al. 2009), and Taiwan, Province of China in 1993 (Wu and Chou, 1995), while observations in Singapore, United States of America and Brazil are more than 50 years old (Welden 1993). More current records and information on habitat preferences is needed to estimate its current population size and trends.
Population Trend: Unknown