Gummivena

Gummivena is a fungal genus in the Mesophelliaceae family.[1] The genus is monotypic, containing the single truffle-like species Gummivena potorooi, found in Western Australia. Described as new to science in 2002, Gummivena is intermediate in form between Castoreum and Gummiglobus, and has a gleba with "veins" of gummy tissue and a three-layered peridium. The specific epithet potorooi refers the fact that the fungus is found only in the range of the rare and endangered species Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous gilbertii).[2]

Gummivena
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Gummivena

Trappe & Bougher (2002)
Type species
Gummivena potorooi
Trappe & Bougher (2002)
Gummivena is found only in the range of Gilbert's potoroo in Western Australia

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Trappe JM, Bougher NL (2002). "Australasian Sequestrate (truffle-like) Fungi. XI. Gummivena potorooi gen. & sp. nov. (Basidiomycota, Mesophelliaceae), with a key to the "gummy" genera and species of the Mesophelliaceae" (PDF). Australasian Mycologist. 21 (1): 9–11.


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