Otidea leporina

Otidea leporina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Pezizomycetes
Order:	Pezizales
Family:	Pyronemataceae
Genus:	Otidea
Species:	O. leporina
Binomial name
Otidea leporina (Batsch) Fuckel (1870)
Synonyms [1]
Helvella auricula Schaeff. (1774) Peziza leporinaBatsch (1783) Scodellina leporina(Batsch) Gray (1821) Scodellina auricula(Schaeff.) Seaver (1928) Helvella leporina(Batsch) Franchi, L.Lami & M.Marchetti (1999)

Otidea leporina is a species of fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. It was given its current name by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870. ^[2] It contains toxins which may cause serious gastric upset. ^[3]

References

1. "Otidea leporina (Batsch) Fuckel 1870". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
2. Fuckel L. (1870). "Symbolae mycologicae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Pilze". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German). 23–24: 329.
3. Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 532. ISBN   978-0-7627-3109-1.

External links

• Media related to Otidea leporina at Wikimedia Commons
• Otidea leporina in Index Fungorum