Calostoma fuscum

Calostoma fuscum is a species of gasteroid fungus in the family Sclerodermataceae. Found in Australia, where it grows mainly in Eucalyptus forests, it was originally described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1839 as Mitremyces fuscus.[2] George Edward Massee transferred it to the genus Calostoma in 1888.

Calostoma fuscum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Sclerodermataceae
Genus:
Calostoma
Species:
C. fuscum
Binomial name
Calostoma fuscum
(Berk.) Massee (1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitremyces fuscus Berk. (1839)

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Calostoma fuscum (Berk.) Massee". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
  2. Berkeley MJ. (1839). "Contributions towards a flora of Van Diemen's Land". Annals of Modern History. 3: 322–7.

Calostoma fuscum in Index Fungorum


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