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Radulomyces confluens

species of fungus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ10431782 ↗
Source-derived summary

Radulomyces confluens is a species of crust fungus in the family Pterulaceae. It was originally described in 1815 by Elias Magnus Fries with the name Thelephora confluens. Danish botanist Mads Peter Christiansen made it the type species of his newly-circumscribed genus Radulomyces in 1960.

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External links

Radulomyces confluens in Index Fungorum.

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“Radulomyces confluens” enters the record as species of fungus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Radulomyces, confluens and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1815, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Radulomyces, confluens and species.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10431782. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1815 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Radulomyces confluens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.