''Coniophoropsis'' is a fungal

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

in the family

Coniophoraceae The ''Coniophoraceae'' are a family of fungi in the Boletales order. The family contains 6 genera and 28 species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating ...

. It is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus, containing the single species ''Coniophoropsis obscura'', found in

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

. Both the genus and the species were described in 1986 by mycologists Kurt Hjorstam and

Leif Ryvarden Leif Randulff Ryvarden (born 9 August 1935) is a Norwegian mycologist. Early life and education Leif Ryvarden was born in Bergen as a son of Einar Norberg Johansen (1900–1959) and Hjørdis Randulff (1912–1975). He finished his secondary ed ...

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* Boletales Monotypic Boletales genera Fungi of Argentina Taxa named by Leif Ryvarden {{Boletales-stub