Phillipsia subpurpurea

Phillipsia subpurpurea is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae. It is found in Australia where it grows as a saprophyte on wood. The fungus was first described scientifically by English mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome. Its cup-shaped fruit bodies lack stipes and have purplish interior surfaces.[1]

Phillipsia subpurpurea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Sarcoscyphaceae
Genus: Phillipsia
Species:
P. subpurpurea
Binomial name
Phillipsia subpurpurea
Berk. & Broome (1881)

References

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  1. ^ Berkeley MJ, Broome CE. (1883). "List of fungi from Brisbane, Queensland; with descriptions of new species. Part II". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Botany. 2 (3): 53–73 (see p. 69). doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1883.tb00004.x.
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