''Phlegmacium subfraudulosum'' is a species of
mushroom producing
fungus in the family
Cortinariaceae.
It was previously known as ''Cortinarius subfraudulosus.''
Taxonomy
The species was
described in 2014 and classified as ''Cortinarius subfraudulosus.'' It was placed in the
subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Phlegmacium'' of the large
mushroom genus ''
Cortinarius''.
In 2022 the species was transferred from ''Cortinarius'' and reclassified as ''Phlegmacium subfoetidum'' based on genomic data.
Etymology
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''subfraudulosus'' referred to its similarity to ''Cortinarius fraudulosus''
(since reclassified as ''
Phlegmacium fraudulosum
''Phlegmacium'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cortinariaceae.
Taxonomy
The genus was created in 1877 by the German mycologist Friedrich Otto Wünsche based on the earlier 1821 classification of the ''Agaricus'' tribe ''Phlegmacium'' by ...
).
'' With its reclassification the specific epithet was changed to ''subfraudulosum''.
Habitat and distribution
Found in
Fennoscandia
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Fennoscandia (Finnish language, Finnish, Swedish language, Swedish and no, Fennoskandia, nocat=1; russian: Фенноскандия, Fennoskandiya) or the Fennoscandian Peninsula is the geographical peninsula in Europe, which includes ...
and
Estonia, where it grows on the ground in
hemiboreal and
boreal forests.
See also
*
List of ''Cortinarius'' species
References
External links
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subfraudulosus
Fungi described in 2014
Fungi of Europe
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