Calvatia Pachydermica
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 | |
|---|---|
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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