Termitomyces microcarpus
Termitomyces microcarpus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Lyophyllaceae |
Genus: | Termitomyces |
Species: | T. microcarpus
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Binomial name | |
Termitomyces microcarpus | |
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Termitomyces microcarpus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Lyophyllaceae. An edible species, it is found in Africa and Asia, where it grows in groups or clusters in deciduous forests near the roots of bamboo stumps associated with termite nests.[3]
References[]
- ^ Heim R. (1942). "Nouvelles études descriptives sur les agarics termitophiles d'Afrique tropicale". Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (in French). 18 (6): 107–66 (see p. 128).
- ^ "Synonymy: Termitomyces microcarpus (Berk. & Broome) R. Heim, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 6 18: 128 (1942)". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
- ^ Zhishu B, Zheng G, Taihui L (1993). The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province (Chinese University Press). New York, New York: Columbia University Press. p. 262. ISBN 962-201-556-5.
Categories:
- Lyophyllaceae
- Fungi described in 1871
- Fungi of Africa
- Fungi of Asia
- Taxa named by Miles Joseph Berkeley
- Taxa named by Christopher Edmund Broome
- Agaricales stubs