{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Parmastomyces transmutans 307981.jpg | image_caption = ''Parmastomyces transmutans'' | taxon = Parmastomyces | authority = Kotl. & Pouzar (1964) | type_species = ''Parmastomyces kravtzevianus'' | type_species_authority = (Bondartsev & Parmasto) Kotl. & Pouzar (1964) }}
'''''Parmastomyces''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdenek Pouzar in 1964, with ''Tyromyces kravtzevianus'' Bondartzev & Parm. as the type species. ''Parmastomyces'' species cause a brown rot. The genus has a monomitic hyphal system.<ref name="Kotlába 1964"/>
The genus name of ''Parmastomyces'' is in honour of Erast Parmasto (1928–2012), who was an Estonian mycologist, bio-scientist and botanist and onetime director of the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>
The genus was circumscribed by Paul Claude Silva in Taxon vol.8 on page 63 in 1959.
==Species== *''Parmastomyces corticola'' {{au|Corner (1989)}} *''Parmastomyces deceptivus'' {{au|Corner (1989)}} *''Parmastomyces glutinosus'' {{au|Corner (1989)}} *''Parmastomyces kravtzevianus'' {{au|(Bondartsev & Parmasto) Kotl. & Pouzar (1964)}} – Europe *''Parmastomyces mollissimus'' {{au|(Maire) Pouzar (1984)}} – Europe *''Parmastomyces taxi'' {{au|(Bondartsev) Y.C.Dai & Niemelä (1995)}} *''Parmastomyces umbrinus'' {{au|Corner (1989)}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Kotlába 1964">{{cite journal |author1=Kotlába, F. |author2=Pouzar, Z. |year=1964 |title=Staining spores of Homobasidiomycetes in cotton blue and its importance for taxonomy |journal=Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis |volume=69 |pages=131–142}}</ref>
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Category:Fomitopsidaceae Category:Polyporales genera Category:Taxa described in 1964 Category:Taxa named by Zdeněk Pouzar
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