Calvatia pachydermica

Calvatia pachydermica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Calvatia
Species:
C. pachydermica
Binomial name
Calvatia pachydermica
(Speg.) Kreisel, 1992
Synonyms

Bovista pachydermica

Calvatia pachydermica is a species of puffball mushroom native to southernmost South America.[1] Originally described in 1887 as Bovista pachydermica from a specimen collected in 1882 at Tierra Del Fuego in Argentina near Punta Arenas in Chile,[2]: 438  this puffball was moved to the genus Calvatia in 1992.[3][2] Most collections of this species have been made from southernmost Chile.[2]: 438 

German mycologist Hanns Kreisel placed it in Calvatia sect. Cretacea, which is a grouping characterized by "Exoperidium spiny or areolate. Capillitium with small or large pits. Subgleba cellular or rudimentary. Mature gleba brown or violaceous brown."[2]: 437 

References

  1. ^ Calvatia pachydermica in MycoBank.
  2. ^ a b c d Kreisel, H. (1992-01-01). "An emendation and preliminary survey of the genus Calvatia (Gasteromycetidae)". Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 14 (4): 431–439. ISSN 0031-5850.
  3. ^ "Species Fungorum - Names Record". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
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