Cantharocybe
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| Cantharocybe | |
|---|---|
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| Cantharocybe gruberi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hygrophoraceae |
| Genus: | Cantharocybe H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973) |
| Type species | |
| Cantharocybe gruberi (A.H.Sm.) H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973) | |
| Species | |
Cantharocybe is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae.[1] The genus was described by American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith in 1973.[2] Cantharocybe contains three species: the type C. gruberi, and C. brunneovelutina from Belize, reported as new to science in 2011,[3] and C. virosa, transferred from "Megacollybia", and found in Bangladesh and India.[4][5]