Tympanella

Tympanella is a fungal genus in the family Bolbitiaceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single secotioid species Tympanella galanthina, found in New Zealand. Mycologist Egon Horak defined the genus in 1971.[2] T. galathina was originally described as Agaricus galathinus in 1890 by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee.[3]

Tympanella
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Tympanella

E.Horak (1971)
Type species
Tympanella galanthina
(Cooke & Massee) E.Horak (1971)
Synonyms[1]
  • Agaricus galanthinus Cooke & Massee (1890)
  • Naucoria galanthina (Cooke & Massee) Sacc. (1891)

See also

References

  1. "Tympanella galanthina (Cooke & Massee) E. Horak". CAB International. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  2. Horak E. (1971). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales s.l. (Fungi) of New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 9 (3): 463–93 (see p. 485). doi:10.1080/0028825X.1971.10430194.
  3. Cooke MC. (1890). "New Zealand fungi". Grevillea. 19 (89): 1–4.


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