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Whose Ear?: Proposal to conserve the name Auricularia auricula (L.) Underw. for Auricularia auricula-judae (Bull.) Quél.
2023-08-07
Abstract excerpt
Auricularia auricula-judae is a saprobic European jelly fungus with traditional culinary and medicinal significance, often said to resemble a human ear. It was originally named Tremella auricula by Linnaeus and has been moved to different genera since, but its specific epithet was also changed from auricula to auricula-judae by Bulliard in 1789, which is not normally a valid nomenclatural alteration. How...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 03639ea6-a708-5761-8f27-5b9aa4f17efc
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.134821.1
