Dacryopinax elegans
Appearance
Dacryopinax elegans | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Dacrymycetes |
Order: | Dacrymycetales |
Family: | Dacrymycetaceae |
Genus: | Dacryopinax |
Species: | D. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Dacryopinax elegans | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Dacryopinax elegans is a species of jelly fungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae. It was originally formally described as Guepinia elegans by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1849.[2] George Willard Martin transferred it to the genus Dacryopinax in 1948.[3]
The fruit bodies have upside-down cups 3–15 millimetres (1⁄8–5⁄8 in) across. Similar species include Guepiniopsis buccina and some in Auricularia.[4]
It appears from June to October in the eastern United States west of New England.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ Berkeley, M.J.; Curtis, M.A. (1849). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXIII and XXIV. North and South Carolina Fungi". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 1: 234–239.
- ^ Martin, G.W. (1948). "New of noteworthy tropical fungi. IV". Lloydia. 11 (2): 111–122.
- ^ a b Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-593-31998-7.