Sparassis

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Sparassidaceae – cauliflower mushrooms.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Dikarya – subkingdom; Basidiomycota – phylum; Agaricomycotina – subphylum; Agaricomycetes – class; Agaricomycetidae – subclass; Polyporales – order; Sparassidaceae – family

• (genus): Sparassis crispa (cauliflower fungus) – type species; Sparassis americana (American cauliflower mushroom), Sparassis brevipes, Sparassis laminosa, Sparassis latifolia (Asian cauliflower mushroom), Sparassis nemecii, Sparassis radicata (western cauliflower mushroom), Sparassis spathulata (eastern cauliflower mushroom), Sparassis subalpina – selected other species

• Sparassis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sparassis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sparassis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sparassis at the Catalogue of Life 
• Sparassis at iNaturalist
• Sparassis at MycoBank
• Sparassis at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Sparassis at the Open Tree of Life Web Project
• Sparassis available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera