Coprinellus ellisii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Psathyrellaceae |
Genus: | Coprinellus |
Species: | C. ellisii
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Binomial name | |
Coprinellus ellisii (P.D.Orton) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
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Coprinellus ellisii is a species of mushroom in the family Psathyrellaceae. Found in Europe, it was first described as Coprinus ellisii by Peter D. Orton in 1960,[1] and later transferred to the genus Coprinellus in 2001.[2] The specific epithet ellisii honours E.A. Ellis, who, according to Orton, was "the Norfolk naturalist and mycologist who collected this and who brought me many puzzling and apparently undescribed agarics."