Battarrea

Battarrea
Battarrea phalloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae
Genus: Battarrea
Pers. (1801)
Type species
Battarrea phalloides
(Dicks.) Pers. (1801)
Synonyms[1]

Battarrea is a genus of mushroom-producing fungi. The genus used to be classified in the family Tulostomaceae[3] until molecular phylogenetics revealed its affinity to the Agaricaceae. Species of Battarrea have a peridium (spore sac) that rests atop an elongated, hollow stipe with a surface that tends to become torn into fibrous scales. Inside the peridium, the gleba consists of spherical, warted spores, and a capillitium of simple or brached hyphal threads that have spiral or angular thickenings. The genus is named after Italian priest and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Battarra.[4]

Species

See also

References

  1. "Synonymy: Battarrea Pers.". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  2. Welwitsch F, Currey F (1868). "Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London". 26: 279–94.
  3. Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. CAB International. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
  4. Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge University Press Archive. p. 53.

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