Castoreum (fungus)

Castoreum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hysterangiales
Family:	Mesophelliaceae
Genus:	Castoreum; Cooke & Massee (1887)
Type species
	Castoreum radicatum; Cooke & Massee (1887)
Species
	C. camphoratum; C. radicatum; C. tasmanicum

Castoreum is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus, circumscribed by English mycologists Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee in 1887,^[1] contains three species found in Australia.^[2]

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