Protogaster

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | grandparent_authority = Zeller (1934) | genus = Protogaster | parent_authority = Thaxt. (1934) | species = rhizophilus | authority = Thaxt. (1934) }}

'''Protogastraceae''' is a family of fungi in the order Boletales that contains the single genus '''''Protogaster'''''. The genus, in turn, contains a single species, '''''Protogaster rhizophilus''''', found on the roots of ''Viola'' in the US.<ref name=Kirk2008/> The family was described by American mycologist Sanford Myron Zeller in 1934, and the genus and species by Roland Thaxter.<ref name=Zeller1934/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=Kirk2008>{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CAB International |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=563 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>

<ref name=Zeller1934>{{cite journal |author=Zeller SM. |title=''Protogaster'', representing a new order of the Gasteromycete |journal= Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |year=1934 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=231–40 |doi=10.2307/2394140|jstor=2394140 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/16511 }}</ref>

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Category:Boletales Category:Fungi of North America Category:Monotypic Boletales genera