| Calvatia pachydermica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae |
| Genus: | Calvatia |
| Species: | C. pachydermica
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| Binomial name | |
| Calvatia pachydermica (Speg.) Kreisel, 1992
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| Synonyms | |
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Bovista pachydermica | |
Calvatia pachydermica is a species of puffball mushroom native to southernmost South America.[1] Originally described in 1887 as Bovista pachydermica from a specimen collected in 1882 at Tierra Del Fuego in Argentina near Punta Arenas in Chile,[2]: 438 this puffball was moved to the genus Calvatia in 1992.[3][2] Most collections of this species have been made from southernmost Chile.[2]: 438
German mycologist Hanns Kreisel placed it in Calvatia sect. Cretacea, which is a grouping characterized by "Exoperidium spiny or areolate. Capillitium with small or large pits. Subgleba cellular or rudimentary. Mature gleba brown or violaceous brown."[2]: 437
References[edit]
- ^ Calvatia pachydermica in MycoBank.
- ^ a b c d Kreisel, H. (1992-01-01). "An emendation and preliminary survey of the genus Calvatia (Gasteromycetidae)". Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 14 (4): 431–439. ISSN 0031-5850.
- ^ "Species Fungorum - Names Record". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 2024-03-17.