Phillipsia subpurpurea is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae. It is found in Australia where it grows as a saprophyte on wood. The fungus was first described scientifically by English mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome. Its cup-shaped fruit bodies lack stipes and have purplish interior surfaces.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Sarcoscyphaceae |
| Genus: | Phillipsia |
| Species: | P. subpurpurea
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| Phillipsia subpurpurea | |
References
edit- ^ Berkeley MJ, Broome CE. (1883). "List of fungi from Brisbane, Queensland; with descriptions of new species. Part II". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Botany. 2 (3): 53–73 (see p. 69). doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1883.tb00004.x.