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  7. ›Agaricineae
  8. ›Coprinaceae
  9. ›Montagnea
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Montagnea arenaria

Montagnea arenaria is a species of secotioid fungus in the Agaricaceae family. Originally named Agaricus arenarius by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1815, it was transferred to the genus Montagnea by Sanford Myron Zeller in 1943. The species is characterized by a cap that has an apical disc, radial gills, a hymenophore, and spores with a prominent germ pore.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 351592.