Parmastomyces

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Parmastomyces transmutans 307981.jpg

| image_width = 240px

| image_caption = Parmastomyces transmutans

| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Basidiomycota

| classis = Agaricomycetes

| ordo = Polyporales

| familia = Fomitopsidaceae

| genus = Parmastomyces

| genus_authority = Kotl. & Pouzar (1964)

| type_species = Parmastomyces kravtzevianus

| type_species_authority = (Bondartsev & Parmasto) Kotl. & Pouzar (1964)

}}

Parmastomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdenek Pouzar in 1964, with Tyromyces kravtzevianus Bondartzev & Parm. as the type species. Parmastomyces species cause a brown rot. The genus has a monomitic hyphal system.

The genus name of Parmastomyces is in honour of Erast Parmasto (1928–2012), who was an Estonian mycologist, bio-scientist and botanist and onetime director of the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

The genus was circumscribed by Paul Claude Silva in Taxon vol.8 on page 63 in 1959.