| Morchella purpurascens | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Morchellaceae |
| Genus: | Morchella |
| Species: | M. purpurascens
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| Binomial name | |
| Morchella purpurascens | |
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Morchella purpurascens, the purple morel, is an ascomycete fungus in the family Morchellaceae. It was first described as a variety of Morchella elata by Emile Boudier in 1897,[1] based on a plate previously illustrated by Julius Vincenz von Krombholz.[2] It was then recombined as a distinct species in 1985 by Emile Jacquetant, and validated the following year by Jacquetant and Bon.[3][4] As with many other morel species, its taxonomical status remained for a long time a subject of debate, until an extensive phylogenetic and nomenclatural study in 2014 by Richard and colleagues confirmed this species' autonomy and matched it to phylogenetic lineage Mel-20.[5]
The species is characterised by the pinkish or purplish colours on the cap of its young fruit bodies.
References[edit]
- ^ Boudier E. (1897). Révision analytique des morilles de France. Bull Soc Mycol Fr 13:130–150
- ^ Krombholz JV von. 1834. Naturgetreue Abblidungen und Beschreibungen der essbaren, scha ̈dlichen und verda ̈chtigen Schwa ̈mme, Heift 3. G. Calve, Praha J, 36 p., pl. XV-XXII.
- ^ Jacquetant E. (1984). Les Morilles. Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts. p. 114.
- ^ Jacquetant E, Bon M. (1985). Typifications et mises au point nomenclaturales dans l’ouvrage ‘‘Les morilles’’ (de E. Jacquetant), Nature-Piantanida 1984. Documents Mycologiques 14:1.
- ^ Richard, Franck; Bellanger, Jean-Michel; Clowez, Philippe; Courtecuisse, Regis; Hansen, Karen; O'Donnell, Kerry; Sauve, Mathieu; Urban, Alexander; Moreau, Pierre-Arthur (30 December 2014). "True morels (Morchella, Pezizales) of Europe and North America: evolutionary relationships inferred from multilocus data and a unified taxonomy". Mycologia (Preliminary version published online). 107 (2): 359–382. doi:10.3852/14-166. PMID 25550303. 14-166.