Laternea

Laternea
Laternea pusilla in Costa Rica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Phallales
Family: Phallaceae
Genus: Laternea
Turpin (1822)
Type species
Laternea triscapa
Turpin (1820)

Laternea is a genus of fungi in the Phallaceae family. The genus was first described by French botanist Pierre Jean François Turpin in 1822. It contains two species found in tropical regions of the Americas.[1]

Species

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.


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