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Desert Inkcap

Photo: Melissa Pearson · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Fungi and other organisms

Desert Inkcap

Montagnea arenaria

Observations in the area
1
Last sighting
12 October 2022
Category
Fungi and other organisms
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The species

Montagnea arenaria is a species of secotioid fungus in the Agaricaceae family. Originally named Agaricus arenarius by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1815, it was transferred to the genus Montagnea by Sanford Myron Zeller in 1943. The species is characterized by a cap that has an apical disc, radial gills, a hymenophore, and spores with a prominent germ pore.

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