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Callistosporium luteo olivaceum

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Tricholomataceae

Rank
  
Species

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Genus
  
Callistosporium

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Similar
  
Callistosporium, Callistosporium purpureomarginatum, Caulorhiza, Asproinocybe, Amparoina spinosissima

Callistosporium luteo olivaceum fungi kingdom


Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum is a species of agaric fungus in the family Tricholomataceae. It was originally described in 1859 as Agaricus luteo-olivaceus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1859. Rolf Singer transferred it to Callistosporium in 1946. The fungus has an extensive synonymy. Although rare, C. luteo-olivaceum is widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas of Europe and North America. In 2014, it was reported growing in pine forests in Western Himalaya, Pakistan.

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Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum Wikipedia