Heliogaster

Heliogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Boletales
Family:	Boletaceae
Genus:	Heliogaster; Orihara & Iwase
Type species
	Heliogaster columellifer; (Kobayasi) Orihara & Iwase

Heliogaster is a sequestrate genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Heliogaster columellifer, found in Japan. The genus was first described in 2010, to accommodate the species formerly named Octaviania columellifera by Kobayasi in 1937.

References

^ Orihara T; Sawada F; Ikeda S; Yamato M; Tanaka C; Shimomura N; Hashiya M. Iwase K. (2010). "Taxonomic reconsideration of a sequestrate fungus, Octaviania columellifera, with the proposal of a new genus, Heliogaster, and its phylogenetic relationships in the Boletales". Mycologia. 102 (1): 108–121. doi:10.3852/08-168. PMID 20120234. S2CID 8109767.

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[Orihara2010-1] Orihara T; Sawada F; Ikeda S; Yamato M; Tanaka C; Shimomura N; Hashiya M. Iwase K. (2010). "Taxonomic reconsideration of a sequestrate fungus, Octaviania columellifera, with the proposal of a new genus, Heliogaster, and its phylogenetic relationships in the Boletales". Mycologia. 102 (1): 108–121. doi:10.3852/08-168. PMID 20120234. S2CID 8109767.