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Name: Gyromitra gigas (Krombh.) Cooke

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Nomenclature:
Rank: Species
Status: Accepted
Name: Gyromitra gigas
Author: (Krombh.) Cooke
Citation:
Synonym(s): Gyromitra montana Harmaja
Deprecated Synonym(s): Gyromitra montanum, Gyomitra gigas

Classification: Edit

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Discinaceae


Brief Description: See More | Edit

Cap/Head attached and inter grown with stalk, irregularly wrinkled, with hollowed, irregular chambers,
Hymenium layer(outside surface)
brown-cinnamon brown or ocher brown when young.
Stalk/Stipe
large, with many small chambers that are lined with a white cottony surface when young, lighter then cap/head almost pallid white when young becoming palid brown with age or when wet,
Spores with one large oil drop in the middle and 2 small ones at each end, some times with very small blunt nobs at each end with age,
Oder pleasant, not as strong as G. esculenta


Descriptions: Create

Version: 3
Previous Version: 2

First person to use this name on MO: Nathan Wilson
Editors: Alan Rockefeller, Johannes Harnisch

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Created: 2010-05-11 20:47:30 EDT (-0400)
By: Johannes Harnisch (Johann)
Summary: what name to use

should you use Basionym Names or Homotypic ?

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Created: 2010-05-11 20:45:04 EDT (-0400)
By: Johannes Harnisch (Johann)
Summary: Should we merge these

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Created: 2007-01-10 00:03:52 EST (-0500) by Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Last modified: 2009-05-18 00:10:28 EDT (-0400) by Johannes Harnisch (Johann)
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