Cantharocybe

Cantharocybe
Cantharocybe gruberi
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Cantharocybe

Type species
Cantharocybe gruberi
(A.H.Sm.) H.E.Bigelow & A.H.Sm. (1973)
Species

C. brunneovelutina
C. gruberi
C. virosa

Cantharocybe is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae. The genus was described by American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith in 1973. Cantharocybe contains three species: the type C. gruberi, and C. brunneovelutina from Belize, reported as new to science in 2011, and C. virosa, transferred from "Megacollybia", and found in Bangladesh and India.

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