Ramaria botrytoides is a species of coral fungus in the family Gomphaceae. First described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1905 as Clavaria botryoides, it was transferred to the genus Ramaria in 1950 by E.J.H. Corner.[2] Found in the eastern United States, it resembles Ramaria botrytis, but can be most reliably distinguished from that species by the lack of longitudinal striations in its spores.[3]
Ramaria botrytoides | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Gomphales |
Family: | Gomphaceae |
Genus: | Ramaria |
Species: | R. botrytoides
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Binomial name | |
Ramaria botrytoides | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Clavaria botryoides Peck (1905) |
References
edit- ^ "Ramaria botrytoides (Peck) Corner :562, 1950". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ^ Corner EJH. (1950). A Monograph of Clavaria and Allied Genera. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 562.
- ^ McKnight VB, McKnight KH. (1987). A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America. Peterson Field Guides. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin. p. 75. ISBN 0-395-91090-0.
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