Cookeina speciosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Pezizomycetes |
Order: | Pezizales |
Family: | Sarcoscyphaceae |
Genus: | Cookeina |
Species: | C. speciosa
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Binomial name | |
Cookeina speciosa | |
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Cookeina speciosa is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae.
Cookeina speciosa is the most common species of its genus. Its colours vary. Colour variants are white over yellow, pinkish red, yellow-orange, and orange to chocolate brown colour apothecia.[2][3] The species can be found both in isolation and in group.
The fungus was originally described in 1822 by Elias Magnus Fries, as Peziza speciosa.[4] Richard William George Dennis transferred it to the genus Cookeina in 1994.[5]
The genus Cookeina is named after Mordecai Cubitt Cooke[6]