Sarcodon_atroviridis

<i>Sarcodon atroviridis</i>

Sarcodon atroviridis

Species of fungus

Sarcodon atroviridis is a species of fungus in the family Bankeraceae found in North America and Asia. It was originally described in 1895 as Hydnum atroviride by Andrew Price Morgan.[2] Howard James Banker transferred it to Sarcodon in 1906.[3] The fungus is known from Asia and North America;[4] in 2015 it was reported from Brazil.[5] The specific epithet atroviridis means "blackish green".[6] While not explicitly known to be poisonous, it is considered of poor edibility.[7]

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References

  1. [1]
    "GSD Species Synonymy: Sarcodon atroviridis (Morgan) Banker". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
  2. [2]
    Morgan AP. (1895). "New North American fungi". Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 18: 36–45.
  3. [3]
    Banker HJ. (1906). "A contribution to a revision of the North American Hydnaceae". Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 12: 99–194 (see p. 148).
  4. [4]
    Leelavathy KM; Manimohan P; Ganesh PN. (1986). "Sarcodon atroviridis – A stipitate Hydnum new to India" (PDF). Sydowia. 39: 124–5.
  5. [5]
    Komura DL; Wartchow F; Zartman CE. (2015). "Sarcodon atroviridis sensu lato, a stipitate hydnoid from Amazonian campinarana, Roraima, Brazil". Check List. 11 (2): 1–4. doi:10.15560/11.2.1603.
  6. [6]
    Roody WC. (2003). Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 403. ISBN 978-0-8131-9039-6.
  7. [7]
    Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 324. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.


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