THC Science

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]

References[edit]

^ Cooke MCC. (1887). "Some Australian fungi". Grevillea. 15 (76): 97–101.
^ 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.