Phleogenaceae
Atractiella rhizophila Bonito, K.Hameed, Aime & Vilgalys , legitimate, scientific
Bonito, G., Hameed, K., Toome-Heller, M., Healy, R., Reid, C., Liao, H.-L., Aime, M.C., Schadt, C. & Vilgalys, R. (6 February 2017), Atractiella rhizophila, sp. nov., an endorrhizal fungus isolated from the Populus root microbiome,. Mycologia 109(1): 23, fig. 2 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Typification: USA. NORTH CAROLINA: along the Yadkin River, dried culture of strain PMI 95 isolated from roots of Populus deltoides, Apr 2010 (holotype DUKE 350887)."
  • Text: identifier: MB 816886
  • Text: DNA sequence: from culture ex-holotype: GenBank JX243797 (ITS).
  • Text: Basis of record from Australia is sequence in 18S+ITS+28S phylogenetic tree "RFLP21", an environmental sequence from soil [not lodged in GenBank].
  • Etymology: "rhizophila from Greek, rhizophilus, referring to the association with plant roots.
AusFungi (2020), AusFungi: - FungI [secondary reference]