- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Trametes pavonia (Hook.) Ryvarden
- Scientific name
- Trametes pavonia
- Author
- (Hook.) Ryvarden
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira
- Comments etc.
- Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira, Tatiana Gibertoni
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
This species is similar to T. membranacea, but the flexible, concentrically zonate basidiomata distinguish T. pavonia (Gomes-Silva et al. 2010).
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 26 countries. About half of the records are in Brazil. However, there are two entries for the species in GBIF, totaling about 370 species worlwide and about 80 to Brazil.
Population and Trends
There are about 370 records of this species in GBIF, about 80 of them in Brazil. It is a common species.
Population Trend: Uncertain
Habitat and Ecology
Tropical/Subtropical species. In Brazil the species is found in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga and Cerrado.
Threats
The species is well distributed in Brazil. However, the Amazon has currently the highest rates of deforestation in the last decades and the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado are already a hotspot, and Caatinga is threatened by desertification.
Conservation Actions
Some 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
The species has biotechnological importance (Tanruean et al., 2013).
