Scutellinia olivascens is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pyronemataceae. The species was described in 1876 by Mordecai Cooke as Peziza olivascens,[3] but Otto Kuntze revised the genus to Scutellinia in 1891.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Pyronemataceae |
| Genus: | Scutellinia |
| Species: | S. olivascens
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| Scutellinia olivascens | |
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The species resembles the abundant Scutellinia umbrorum and can only be reliably identified by microscopic features.[4] Found in Europe, S. olivascens forms clusters of orange discs up to 1.5 cm in diameter on soil or rotting wood in summer and autumn.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Scutellinia olivascens at Species Fungorum
- ^ a b Kuntze, O. (1891) Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 869
- ^ Cooke, M.C. (1876) Mycogr., Vol. 1. Discom. (London)(no. 2): 78, fig. 142
- ^ a b Jordan, Michael (2004). The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe. Frances Lincoln Publishers. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7112-2379-0.
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