Calvatia pachydermica is a species of puffball mushroom native to southernmost South America. Originally described in 1887 as Bovista pachydermica from a specimen collected in 1882 at Tierra Del Fuego in Argentina near Punta Arenas in Chile,: 438 this puffball was moved to the genus Calvatia in 1992. Most collections of this species have been made from southernmost Chile.: 438
Calvatia pachydermica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Agaricaceae |
Genus: | Calvatia |
Species: | C. pachydermica |
Binomial name | |
Calvatia pachydermica (Speg.) Kreisel, 1992 | |
Synonyms | |
Bovista pachydermica |
German mycologist Hanns Kreisel placed it in Calvatia sect. Cretacea, which is a grouping characterized by "Exoperidium spiny or areolate. Capillitium with small or large pits. Subgleba cellular or rudimentary. Mature gleba brown or violaceous brown.": 437
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