Peziza
| Peziza | |
|---|---|
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| Peziza species | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Pezizaceae |
| Genus: | Peziza Dill. ex Fries (1822) |
| Type species | |
| Peziza vesiculosa Bull. (1790) | |
Tease mount of Peziza spp. fruit body
Peziza is a large genus of saprophytic cup fungi that grow on the ground, rotting wood, or dung. Most members of this genus are of unknown edibility and are difficult to identify as separate species without use of microscopy. The polyphyletic genus has been estimated to contain over 100 species.[1]
Peziza may come from the term for foot in Romance languages, perhaps in reference to their general lack of a stalk.
Species
Species include:
- Peziza ampliata
- Peziza arvernensis
- Peziza badia
- Peziza cerea
- Peziza domiciliana
- Peziza echinospora
- Peziza fimeti
- Peziza granulosa
- Peziza micropus group
- Peziza oliviae[2]
- Peziza ostracoderma
- Peziza petersii
- Peziza phyllogena
- Peziza praetervisa
- Peziza repanda
- Peziza succosa
- Peziza sylvestris
- Peziza varia
- Peziza vesiculosa
- Peziza violacea
References
- ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ↑ Frank JL. (2013). "The olive goblet: Peziza olive, a new cup fungus growing underwater in Oregon". Mycotaxon 126: 183–90. doi:10.5248/126.183.