Serpula (fungus)
…Narcisse Théophile Patouillard's 1874 Gyrophora, and Patouillard's 1897 Gyrophana. Serpula forms a clade with at least two other closely related genera, Austropaxillus and Gymnopaxillus, the three composing the family Serpulaceae. It is thought that the common ancestor was saprotrophic, and that ancestor to the latter…