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Erastia
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Erastia

Erastia is a fungal genus in the family Polyporaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single European species Erastia salmonicolor, or the salmon bracket. Erastia was circumscribed by Finnish mycologists Tuomo Niemelä and Juha Kinnunen in 2005. It is named in honour of the Estonian mycologist Erast Parmasto, "the eminent researcher of fungal taxonomy and cladistics".

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Erastia aurantiaca

speciesErastia aurantiaca

salmon bracket

speciesErastia salmonicolor

Erastia ochraceolateritia

speciesErastia ochraceolateritia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 471253.