Auriscalpium
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| Auriscalpium | |
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| Auriscalpium vulgare | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Russulales |
| Family: | Auriscalpiaceae |
| Genus: | Auriscalpium Gray (1821) |
| Type species | |
| Auriscalpium vulgare Gray (1821) | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Auriscalpium is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi typifying the family Auriscalpiaceae.[2]
Auriscalpium is a compound of the Latin, auris, "ear"; and scalpo, "I scratch", generally meaning ear pick. The term was originally applied as a specific epithet by Linnaeus in 1753, viz. Hydnum auriscalpium and changed in 1821 to vulgare when S.F. Gray recognized the cone-inhabiting fungus as a new genus, named after its type species, Auriscalpium vulgare. Tautonyms, such as "Auriscalpium auriscalpium" are illegitimate under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
