Biology:Scutellinia olivascens

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Short description: Species of fungus

Scutellinia olivascens
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Scutellinia
Species:
S. olivascens
Binomial name
Scutellinia olivascens
(Cooke) Kuntze (1891)[1][2]
Synonyms[1]

Scutellinia olivascens is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pyronemataceae. This European fungus forms clusters of orange discs up to 1.5 cm in diameter on soil or rotting wood in summer and autumn. It is very similar to the common species Scutellinia umbrorum and can only be reliably identified by microscopic features.[3]

The species was described in 1876 by Mordecai Cooke as Peziza olivascens,[4] but Otto Kuntze revised the genus to Scutellinia in 1891.[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Scutellinia olivascens at Species Fungorum
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kuntze, O. (1891) Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 869
  3. Jordan, Michael (2004). The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe. Frances Lincoln Publishers. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7112-2379-0. 
  4. Cooke, M.C. (1876) Mycogr., Vol. 1. Discom. (London)(no. 2): 78, fig. 142

Wikidata ☰ Q7439588 entry