Elucidating "lucidum": Distinguishing the diverse laccate Ganoderma species of the United States

• A. L. Loyd ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: A. L. Loyd, J. A. Smith, R. A. Blanchette

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aloyd@bartlett.com

  Affiliations University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, The F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts Company, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6463-2635

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• C. W. Barnes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Departamento Nacional de Protection Vegetal, INAP, Quito, Ecuador

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-9091

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• B. W. Held ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Pathology, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

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• M. J. Schink ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Port Crane, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6660-6054

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• M. E. Smith ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation University of Florida, Department of Plant Pathology, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0878-0932

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• J. A. Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: A. L. Loyd, J. A. Smith, R. A. Blanchette

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• R. A. Blanchette

  Contributed equally to this work with: A. L. Loyd, J. A. Smith, R. A. Blanchette

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Pathology, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

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