| Leucangium | |
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| Leucangium carthusianum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Morchellaceae |
| Genus: | Leucangium Quél. (1883) |
| Type species | |
| Leucangium ophthalmosporum Quél. (1883)
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| Species | |
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L. carthusianum | |
Leucangium is a genus of ascomycete fungi.1 The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1883.2 Although classified in the Helvellaceae in the past (e.g., in Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th edition, 2008),3 molecular analysis indicates it is closely related to the genus Fischerula and Imaia, and therefore must be placed in the Morchellaceae.4 The genus includes two species, Leucangium ophthalmosporum Quél. (the type of the genus) and L. carthusianum (Tul. & C. Tul.) Paol., and both of them produce sequestrate (fully or partly underground) ascoma, globose to ellipsoidal ascus (inamyloid and eight-spored), and dark olive-colored to grayish green, smooth, fusiform ascospores.5
References
References
- "Leucangium Quél. 1883". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
- Quélet L. (1883). "Quelques especes critiques ou nouvelles de la Flore Mycologique de France". Compte Rendu de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences (in French). 11: 387–412.
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- Trappe MJ, Trappe JM, Bonito GM (2009). "Kalapuya brunnnea gen. & sp. nov. and its relationship to the other sequestrate genera in Morchellaceae". Mycologia. 102 (5): 1058–65. doi:10.3852/09-232. PMID 20943505. S2CID 23305229.
- Trappe MJ, Trappe JM, Bonito GM (2010). "The Oregon Black Truffle, Leucangium carthusianum: A fascinating and fragrant find from local backyard". Spore Print (Bulletin of the Puget Sound Mycological Society). 452: 1, 4–5.