Geastrum berkeleyi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Geastrales
- Family
- Geastraceae
- Genus
- Geastrum
- Species
- Geastrum berkeleyi
- Scientific Name
- Geastrum berkeleyi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Geastrum berkeleyi
Geastrum berkeleyi, or Berkeley's earthstar, is an inedible species of mushroom belonging to the genus Geastrum, or earthstar fungi. It can be distinguished from other Geastrum species by the flat bipyramidal shape of the calcium oxalate crystals found on its endoperidium.
Despite being a very uncommon mushroom, it has a wide geographical distribution, having been documented in Northern and Eastern Europe as well as Eastern Asia.
...Geastrum berkeleyi in languages:
- Czech
- hvězdovka Berkeleyova
- Danish
- Vortet stjernebold
- Dutch
- Grote ruwe aardster
- English
- Berkeley's earthstar
- Estonian
- Berkeley maatäht
- Finnish
- rosomaatähti
- Hungarian
- szemcsés csillaggomba
- Lithuanian
- Šiurkštusis žvaigždinas
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