Is a widely cultivated culinary-medicinal Royal Sun Agaricus (champignon do Brazil, or the himematsutake mushroom) Agaricus brasiliensis S. Wasser et al. indeed a synonym of A. subrufescens peck?

International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 507-511

  Wasser, Solomon P ^a,b   Didukh, Maryna Ya ^b   De Amazonas, Maria Angela L ^c   Nevo, Eviatar ^a   Stamets, Paul ^d   Da Eira, Augusto F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b M G KHOLODNY INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Ukraine)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d Fungi Perfecti Research Laboratories   (United States)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGARICUS; AGARICUS BRASILIENSIS; AGARICUS SUBRUFESCENS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHAMPIGNON DO BRAZIL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUIT; GENUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIMEMATSUTAKE MUSHROOM; MEDICINAL PLANT; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

AGARICUS; AGARICUS SUBRUFESCENS; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 30644464315     PISSN: 15219437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v7.i3.70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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