Description originale
Amalfi, M. & Decock, C. 2013. Fomitiporia castilloi sp. nov. and multiple clades around F. apiahyna and F. texana in Meso- and South America evidenced by multiloci phylogenetic inferences Mycologia, 105(4): 873-887. : 880

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Amalfi, M. & Decock, C. 2013. Fomitiporia castilloi sp. nov. and multiple clades around F. apiahyna and F. texana in Meso- and South America evidenced by multiloci phylogenetic inferences Mycologia, 105(4): 873-887. : 881 [GF = N]

 

Etymologie : "‘‘castilloi’’, dedicated to Dr Gabriel Castillo, University of Lie`ge, Belgium, for his constant support and invaluable companionship in many collecting trips in French Guyana or elsewhere over the past 20 y."

Habitat : "growing on a dead, decayed trunk of an unidentified angiosperm, in the lowland rainforest of French Guyana."

Holotype : "FRENCH GUYANA, MUNICIPALITY OF REGINA: Nouragues Natural Reserve, CNRS inselberg research plots, ‘‘Petit Plateau’’, layon (track) 22, between F & G, approx 04u05.59N, 52u40.69W, 120 m, on a dead standing trunk, broken at about 1.8 m high, deeply rotten and eaten by insects, hollowed, unidentified angiosperm, 06 Aug 2010, C. Decock, FG10-282 (MUCL 53481; Isotype at NY, culture exholotype MUCL 53481, CBS)."