Castoreum (fungus)
Castoreum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Hysterangiales |
Family: | Mesophelliaceae |
Genus: | Castoreum Cooke & Massee (1887) |
Type species | |
Castoreum radicatum Cooke & Massee (1887) | |
Species | |
C. camphoratum |
Castoreum is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus, circumscribed by English mycologists Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee in 1887,[1] contains three species found in Australia.[2]
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