| Castoreum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Hysterangiales |
| Family: | Mesophelliaceae |
| Genus: | Castoreum Cooke & Massee (1887) |
| Type species | |
| Castoreum radicatum Cooke & Massee (1887) | |
| Species | |
Castoreum is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus, circumscribed by English mycologists Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee in 1887, contains three species found in Australia.
References
- Cooke MCC. (1887). "Some Australian fungi". Grevillea. 15 (76): 97–101.
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
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| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Castoreum | |
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