Castoreum (fungus)

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

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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