Cantharocybe

Cantharocybe
Cantharocybe gruberi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pleurotaceae
Genus: Cantharocybe
H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973)
Type species
Cantharocybe gruberi
(A.H.Sm.) H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973)
Species

C. brunneovelutina
C. gruberi

Cantharocybe is a genus of fungi in the Pleurotaceae family.[1] The genus was described by American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith in 1973.[2] The genus contains two species: the type C. gruberi, and C. brunneovelutina from Belize, reported as new to science in 2011.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. ^ Bigelow HE, Smith AH. (1973). "Cantharocybe, a new genus of Agaricales". Mycologia 65 (2): 485–8. doi:10.2307/3758121. JSTOR 3758121. 
  3. ^ Ovrebo CL, Lodge DJ, Aime MC. (2011). "A new Cantharocybe from Belize with notes on the type of Cantharocybe gruberi". Mycologia 103 (5): 1102–9. doi:10.3852/10-360. PMID 21482626. 

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