Kingdom Fungi Class Pezizomycetes Genus Phillipsia Order Pezizales | Division Ascomycota Family Sarcoscyphaceae Rank Species | |
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Similar Phillipsia, Pezizales, Mycena austrororida, Leratiomyces, Cymatoderma elegans | ||
Phillipsia subpurpurea is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae. It is found in Australia where it grows as a saprophyte on wood. The fungus was first described scientifically by English mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome. Its cup-shaped fruit bodies lack stipes and have purplish interior surfaces.
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