Calvatia

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Genus of fungi

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::summary Genus of fungi ::

| image = Calvatia craniiformis.JPG | image_caption = Calvatia craniiformis | taxon = Calvatia | authority = Fr. (1849) | type_species = Calvatia craniiformis | type_species_authority = (Schwein.) Fr. (1849) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = *Omalycus Raf. (1814)

Calvatia is a genus of puffball mushrooms that includes the giant puffball C. gigantea. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the puffballs, Calvatia spp. are now placed in the family Lycoperdaceae of the order Agaricales.

Most species in the genus Calvatia are edible when young, though some are best avoided, such as Calvatia fumosa, which has a very pungent odor.

The name Calvatia derives from the Latin calvus meaning "bald" and calvaria, meaning "dome of the skull".

Taxonomy

Calvatia was circumscribed by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1849. Fries included a single species in the genus, Calvatia craniiformis, which was originally described as Bovista craniiformis by Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1832.

Species

, Index Fungorum lists 58 species of Calvatia. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Calvatia_nipponica_01.jpg" caption="''Calvatia nipponica''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Calvatia_sculpta_49007.jpg" caption="''Calvatia sculpta''"] ::

References

References

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  2. (2014). "''Calvatia nodulata'', a new gasteroid fungus from Brazilian semiarid region". Journal of Mycology.
  3. (2013). "''Calvatia guzmanii'' sp. nov. (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota) from Paraná State, Brazil". Phytotaxa.
  4. (2003). "''Calvatia sporocristata'' sp. nov. (Gasteromycetes) from Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical.
  5. Ferdinandsen C.. (1910). "Fungi terrestres from NE-Greenland (N of 76° N. Lat.) collected by the "Danmark Expedition"". Meddelelser om Grønland.
  6. Fries EM. (1849). "Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae". Typographia Academica.
  7. Fries TCE. (1914). "Zur Kenntnis der Gasteromyceten-Flora in Torne Lappmark". Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift.
  8. (2006). "New or noteworthy species of the genus ''Calvatia'' Fr. (Basidiomycota) with probable medicinal value from Indonesia". International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms.
  9. (2004). "''Calvatia ahmadii'' sp.nov., from Pakistan". Pakistan Journal of Botany.
  10. Kreisel H.. (1989). "Studies in the ''Calvatia'' complex (Basidiomycetes)". Nova Hedwigia.
  11. (1939). "Fungi of the Bonin Islands. III". Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society.
  12. Lange M.. (1990). "Arctic Gasteromycetes. II. ''Calvatia'' in Greenland, Svalbard, Arctic Ocean and Iceland". Nordic Journal of Botany.
  13. Lloyd CG. "The genera of Gasteromycetes". Mycological Notes.
  14. Montagne JPFC. "Troisième Centurie de plantes cellulaires exotiques nouvelles, Décades I, II, III et IV. Fungi cubenses". Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique.
  15. Patouillard NT. (1912). "Quelques Champignons de la Guinee Française". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France.
  16. Rafinesque-Schmaltz CS.. (1821). "Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814, ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique pour servir d'introduction a ses ouvrages futurs". Palermo.
  17. (2009). "''Calvatia oblongispora'' sp. nov. from Brazil, with close affinities to ''Calvatia sporocristata'' from Costa Rica". Mycotaxon.
  18. "Synonymy: ''Calvatia'' Fr.". Species Fungorum. CAB International.

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