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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Sarcoscyphaceae |
| Genus: | Cookeina |
| Species: | C. speciosa
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| Cookeina speciosa | |
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Cookeina speciosa is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae.
Description
[edit]Cookeina speciosa is the most common species of its genus. Its colours vary. Colour variants are white over yellow, pinkish red, yellow-orange, and orange to chocolate brown colour apothecia.[2][3] The species can be found both in isolation and in group.
Taxonomy
[edit]The fungus was originally described in 1822 by Elias Magnus Fries, as Peziza speciosa.[4] Richard William George Dennis transferred it to the genus Cookeina in 1994.[5]
The genus Cookeina is named after Mordecai Cubitt Cooke[6]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cookeina speciosa.
- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Cookeina speciosa (Fr.) Dennis, Mycotaxon 51: 239 (1994)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Philippe Bouchet; Hervé Le Guyader; Olivier Pascal (eds.). Patrimoines naturels. ISBN 978-2-85653-627-8. Wikidata Q115487401.
- ^ "Cookeina speciosa". Site de EFTA ! (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ^ Fries, Elias (1822). Systema Mycologicum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Lundin: Ex Officina Berlingiana. p. 84.
- ^ Dennis, R.W.G. Dennis (1994). "Plumier's "Discomycetes"". Mycotaxon. 51: 237–239.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022-01-01). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen: Von Menschen & ihren Pflanzen. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8.
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