Morchella elata var. purpurascens Krombh. ex Boud. (1897)
Morchella purpurascens, the purple morel, is an ascomycetefungus in the family Morchellaceae. It was first described as a variety of Morchella elata by Emile Boudier in 1897,[1] based on a plate previously illustrated by Julius Vincenz von Krombholz.[2] It was then recombined as a distinct species in 1985 by Emile Jacquetant, and validated the following year by Jacquetant and Bon.[3][4] As with many other morel species, its taxonomical status remained for a long time a subject of debate, until an extensive phylogenetic and nomenclatural study in 2014 by Richard and colleagues confirmed this species' autonomy and matched it to phylogenetic lineage Mel-20.[5]
The species is characterised by the pinkish or purplish colours on the cap of its young fruit bodies.
References
^Boudier E. (1897). Révision analytique des morilles de France. Bull Soc Mycol Fr 13:130–150
^Krombholz JV von. 1834. Naturgetreue Abblidungen und
Beschreibungen der essbaren, scha ̈dlichen und verda ̈chtigen Schwa ̈mme, Heift 3. G. Calve, Praha J, 36 p., pl. XV-XXII.
^Jacquetant E. (1984). Les Morilles. Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts. p. 114.
^Jacquetant E, Bon M. (1985). Typifications et mises au point nomenclaturales dans l’ouvrage ‘‘Les morilles’’ (de E. Jacquetant), Nature-Piantanida 1984. Documents Mycologiques 14:1.
