Biology:Leucangium
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| Leucangium carthusianum | |
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| Genus: | Leucangium Quél. (1883)
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| Leucangium ophthalmosporum Quél. (1883)
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Leucangium is a genus of ascomycete fungi.[1] The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1883.[2] Although classified in the Helvellaceae in the past (e.g., in Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th edition, 2008),[3] molecular analysis indicates it is closely related to the genus Fischerula and Imaia, and therefore must be placed in the Morchellaceae.[4] The genus includes two species, Leucangium ophthalmosporum Quél. (the type of the genus) and L. carthusianum (Tul. & C. Tul.) Paol., and both of them produce sequestrate (fully or partly underground) ascoma, globose to ellipsoidal ascus (inamyloid and eight-spored), and dark olive-colored to grayish green, smooth, fusiform ascospores.[5]
References
- ↑ "Leucangium Quél. 1883". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=2819. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
- ↑ Quélet L. (1883). "Quelques especes critiques ou nouvelles de la Flore Mycologique de France" (in French). Compte Rendu de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences 11: 387–412.
- ↑ Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ↑ "Kalapuya brunnnea gen. & sp. nov. and its relationship to the other sequestrate genera in Morchellaceae". Mycologia 102 (5): 1058–65. 2009. doi:10.3852/09-232. PMID 20943505.
- ↑ "The Oregon Black Truffle, Leucangium carthusianum: A fascinating and fragrant find from local backyard". Spore Print (Bulletin of the Puget Sound Mycological Society) 452: 1, 4–5. 2010.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q6533934 entry
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