Geopyxis deceptiva
Mycologia 108(6): 1205. 2016.
Common Name: none
Misapplied name: Geopyxis vulcanalis Peck
For description see Wang et al., Arora, & Siegel & Schwarz.
Scattered to gregarious in bare soil, moss, or duff; not uncommon; Sierra Nevada and coastal California; spring.
Unknown.
Geopyxis deceptiva can be distinqued by its pale orangish buff colors and urnlike shape with a ragged margin. Geopyxis carbonaria is darker, reddish tan to pale ocher-brown, and is common in burnt areas in forests and campfire pits. Geopyxis deceptiva was previously erroneously known as Geopyxis vulcanalis, but that is a synomyn of Geopyxis carbonaria.
Arora, D. (1986). Mushrooms Demystified. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 959 p.
Kumar, L.M., Smith, M.E., Nouhra, E.R., Orihara, T., Sandoval Leiva, P., Pfister, D.H., McLaughlin, D.J., Trappe, J.M. & Healy, R.A. (2017). A molecular and morphological re-examination of the generic limits of truffles in the tarzetta-geopyxis lineage – Densocarpa, Hydnocystis, and Paurocotylis. Fungal Biology 121(3): 264-284.
Siegel, N. & Schwarz, C. (2016). Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 601 p.
Wang, X.-H., Huhtinen, S. & Hansen, K. (2016). Multilocus phylogenetic and coalescent-based methods reveal dilemma in generic limits, cryptic species, and a prevalent intercontinental disjunct distribution in Geopyxis (Pyronemataceae s. l., Pezizomycetes). Mycologia 108(6): 1189-1215. (Abstract)
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