Fungi Fungi Name Index (FNI)

Showing Ascobolus calesco
Ascobolus calesco A.E.Bell & Mahoney , legitimate, scientific
Bell, A. & Mahoney, D.P. (2007), Ascobolus calesco. Fungal Planet 21: - [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Typus: Australia, Northern Territories [sic for Northern Territory], S. of Darwin, Bees Creek (latitude: -12° 35', longitude 131° 02'), on dung of agile wallaby, November 1998 (dung incubated 14 March 2006), collected by S. Lambert, PDD 90042, holotypus."
  • Text: identifier: MB 504545
  • Etymology: "caleso (L.) = “to grow in the warm”, referring to the fact that the fungus occurs predominantly in the northern warmer states of Australia."
AusFungi (2019), AusFungi 21 Jan. 2019: - FungI [secondary reference]