Otidea leporina

Otidea leporina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Pezizomycetes
Order:	Pezizales
Family:	Pyronemataceae
Genus:	Otidea
Species:	O. leporina
Binomial name
	Otidea leporina; (Batsch) Fuckel (1870)
Synonyms
	Helvella auricula Schaeff. (1774); Peziza leporina Batsch (1783); Scodellina leporina (Batsch) Gray (1821); Scodellina auricula (Schaeff.) Seaver (1928); Helvella leporina (Batsch) Franchi, L.Lami & M.Marchetti (1999);

Otidea leporina is a species of fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. It was given its current name by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.^[2] It contains toxins which may cause serious gastric upset.^[3]

References

^ "Otidea leporina (Batsch) Fuckel 1870". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
^ Fuckel L. (1870). "Symbolae mycologicae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Pilze". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German). 23–24: 329.
^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 532. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.

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