Leucogyrophana
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Leucogyrophana is a genus of fungi in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae. The genus was erected in 1958 to accommodate the species then known as Merulius molluscus. Several more species were described, bu
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Hygrophoropsis
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Hygrophoropsis is a genus of gilled fungi in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae. It was circumscribed in 1888 to contain the type species, H. aurantiaca, a widespread fungus that, based on its appearance,
Leucogyrophana
…species were described, but DNA testing in 2001 found that L. mollusca was isolated genetically from the others, and most closely related instead to Hygrophoropsis. As of November 2015, Index Fungorum accepts 11 species of Leucogyrophana…
False Chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
Closeup of the orange, forked gills of H. aurantiaca
2011 10 11 Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca crop
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