Castoreum (fungus)

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]

Castoreum
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
C. radicatum
C. tasmanicum

References
  1. Cooke MCC. (1887). "Some Australian fungi". Grevillea. 15 (76): 97–101.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.


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