Clitocybe paraditopa

Clitocybe paraditopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Tricholomataceae
Genus:	Clitocybe
Species:	C. paraditopa
Binomial name
	Clitocybe paraditopa; Cleland & Cheel (1919)

Clitocybe paraditopa is a fungus of the genus Clitocybe. Found in Australia, it was described in 1919 by naturalists John Burton Cleland and Edwin Cheel. Fruitbodies of the fungus smell strongly of blossoms of the golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha) and sweet wattle (Acacia suaveolens).^[1] From the original description of specimens that had been found in New South Wales and South Australia, the describers suggested that it was similar in appearance to and thus could be called paraditopa, "comparable to ".

References[]

^ Cleland JB, Cheel EC. (1919). "Australian fungi: notes and descriptions. No. 3". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 43: 262–325 (see p. 270).

External links[]

Clitocybe paraditopa in Index Fungorum

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[Cleland_1919-1] Cleland JB, Cheel EC. (1919). "Australian fungi: notes and descriptions. No. 3". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 43: 262–325 (see p. 270).

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