Cantharocybe

Cantharocybe
Cantharocybe gruberi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Hygrophoraceae
Genus:
Cantharocybe

Type species
Cantharocybe gruberi
(A.H.Sm.) H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973)
Species

C. brunneovelutina
C. gruberi
C. virosa

Cantharocybe is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae.[1] The genus was described by American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith in 1973.[2] Cantharocybe contains three species: the type C. gruberi, and C. brunneovelutina from Belize, reported as new to science in 2011,[3] and C. virosa, transferred from "Megacollybia", and found in Bangladesh and India.[4] [5]

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