- Proposed
- Under Assessment
- Preliminary Assessed
- Assessed
- DDPublished
Aleuromyces gabonicus (Boidin, Lanq. & Gilles) Boidin & Gilles
Search for another species...
- Scientific name
- Aleuromyces gabonicus
- Author
- (Boidin, Lanq. & Gilles) Boidin & Gilles
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Russulales
- Family
- Stereaceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2022-12-05
- IUCN Red List Category
- DD
- Assessors
- Cunha, S.P. & Gonçalves, S.C.
- Reviewers
- Westrip, J.R.S.
Assessment Notes
The content on this page is fetched from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/238744044/252902156
Justification
Aleuromyces gabonicus is a corticioid fungus that grows on dead wood. The species was described in 1986 from a 1979 type specimen found in Gabon and has since only been recorded in one site in Cameroon in 1991. Given that no further or more recent data is available, this species is assessed as Data Deficient (DD).Taxonomic notes
Aleuromyces gabonicus was originally described as Aleurodiscus gabonicus but has since been moved to the monotypic genus Aleuromyces (Index Fungorum 2022). However, Gorjón (2020) cautioned that the relationship of this species with the Aleurodiscus genus is not yet clear.Geographic range
This species is only known from West Africa (Gabon and Cameroon).Population and Trends
Currently only three records can be found on GBIF, corresponding to one site in Gabon (type specimen found in 1979, described in 1986) and one site in Cameroon (1991). Given that there are no further or more recent records, population size and trends are uncertain.
Population Trend: unknown