| Dacryopinax elegans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Dacrymycetes |
| Order: | Dacrymycetales |
| Family: | Dacrymycetaceae |
| Genus: | Dacryopinax |
| Species: | D. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Dacryopinax elegans (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) G.W.Martin (1948) | |
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Dacryopinax elegans is a species of jelly fungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae. It was originally formally described as Guepinia elegans by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1849. George Willard Martin transferred it to the genus Dacryopinax in 1948.
The fruit bodies have upside-down cups 3–15 millimetres (1⁄8–5⁄8 in) across. Similar species include Guepiniopsis buccina and some in Auricularia.
It appears from June to October in the eastern United States west of New England.
References
- "GSD Species Synonymy". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- Berkeley, M.J.; Curtis, M.A. (1849). "Decades of fungi. Decades XXIII and XXIV. North and South Carolina Fungi". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. 1: 234–239.
- Martin, G.W. (1948). "New of noteworthy tropical fungi. IV". Lloydia. 11 (2): 111–122.
- ^ Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-593-31998-7.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Dacryopinax elegans | |
| Guepinia elegans | |
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