Genus Donkia Pilát

[not related to Climacodon]

This genus is monotypic (has a single species). Further DNA phylogenetic work may add some orphan taxa. It is named after the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk (1908 - 1972).

Donkia pulcherrima

Taxon Details and Links

Nomenclature

Donkia Pilát, Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 52 (3): 328 (1936). Type: Hydnum pulcherrimum Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1849).

Taxonomy

See Moreno et al. (2017). This genus has been reinstated for its type species shown to belong in the Phanerochaetaceae rather than in Meruliaceae with Climacodon. Climacodon sanguineus belongs with Climacodon and not Donkia.

Related links

Moreno, G., M. N. Blanco, G. Platas, J. Checa, I. Olariaga. 2017. Reappraisal of Climacodon (Basidiomycota, Meruliaceae) and reinstatement of Donkia (Phanerochaetaceae) using multigene data. Phytotaxa 291(3): 171–182. 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.3.1

Taxon links

17525 Donkia: MycoBank; Index Fungorum

Compare Index Fungorum and Mycobank.