''Morchella exuberans'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

fungus A fungus (plural, : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of Eukaryote, eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and Mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified ...

in the family

Morchellaceae The Morchellaceae are a family of ascomycete fungi in the order Pezizales. According to a standard reference work, the family has contained at least 49 species distributed among four genera. However, in 2012, five genera that produce ascoma tha ...

(

Ascomycota Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The de ...

). It was described as new to science in a 2012 study by Clowez and corresponds to phylogenetic lineage ''Mel''-9. ''

Morchella capitata ''Morchella capitata'' is a later synonym of '' Morchella exuberans''. Originally identified as phylogenetic species ''Mel''-9, it was described as new to science in 2012 by Kuo and colleagues. In 2014 however, Richard and colleagues clarified t ...

'', described by Kuo and colleagues later in the same year, is a

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of this taxon. ''Morchella exuberans'' is a fire-associated

morel ''Morchella'', the true morels, is a genus of edible sac fungi closely related to anatomically simpler cup fungi in the order Pezizales ( division Ascomycota). These distinctive fungi have a honeycomb appearance due to the network of ridges ...

, growing the first or second spring following a forest fire. It has so far been reported from North America,

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, Sweden, China and

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. Among some of the striking features of this species, are the capitate acroparaphyses on the sterile ridges of its cap, and the chambered

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q24893270 exuberans Ascomycota families