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Cortinarius caperatus



Cortinarius caperatus

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Cortinariaceae
Genus: Cortinarius
Species: C. caperatus
Binomial name
Cortinarius caperatus
(Pers.) Fr. (1838)

Cortinarius caperatus, commonly known as the gypsy mushroom, is a highly esteemed edible mushroom of the genus Cortinarius found in Europe and North America.

The gypsy mushroom has a checkered taxonomic history. It was originally described by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1796, before being transferred to Cortinarius by Elias Magnus Fries. Later it was transferred to Pholiota and then Rozites. It was known as Rozites caperata (Pers.) P. Karst. (1879) for many years before recent genetic study once more placed it within Cortinarius in 2002.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Peintner U, Horak E, Moser M, Vilgalys R (2002). "Rozites, Cuphocybe and Rapacea are taxonomic synonyms of Cortinarius: New combinations and new names". Mycotaxon 83: 447-51.
  2. ^ Peintner U, Horak E, Moser M, Vilgalys R (2002). "Phylogeny of Rozites, Cuphocybe and Rapacea inferred from ITS and LSU rDNA sequences". Mycologia 94: 620-29.
 
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