Nothocastoreum

Nothocastoreum is a fungal genus in the Mesophelliaceae family.[4] The genus is monotypic, containing the single truffle-like species Nothocastoreum cretaceum, found in Australia.[5]

Nothocastoreum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Hysterangiales
Family:
Mesophelliaceae
Genus:
Nothocastoreum

G.W.Beaton (1984)
Type species
Nothocastoreum cretaceum
(Lloyd) G.W.Beaton (1984)
Synonyms[1]

Diploderma cretaceum Lloyd (1921)[2]
Castoreum cretaceum (Lloyd) G.Cunn. (1932)[3]

References
  1. "Nothocastoreum cretaceum (Lloyd) G.W. Beaton 1984". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  2. Lloyd CG. (1921). "Mycological Notes 65". Mycological Writings. 6 (65): 1029–101.
  3. Cuningham GH. (1932). "Gasteromycetes of Australasia. XV. The genera Mesophellia and Castoreum". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 57: 313–22.
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 473. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  5. Beaton G, Weste G (1984). "Victorian hypogaean Gasteromycetes: Mesophelliaceae". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 82 (4): 665–75. doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(84)80107-2.


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