Morchella rufobrunnea
Morchella rufobrunnea is a species of ascomycete fungus in the family Morchellaceae. Young fruit bodies have conical, grayish caps covered with pale ridges and dark pits; mature specimens are yellowish to ochraceous-buff. The surface of the fruit body often bruises brownish orange to pinkish where it has been touched.
About Morchella rufobrunnea in brief
Morchella rufobrunnea, commonly known as the blushing morel, is a species of ascomycete fungus in the family Morchellaceae. The fungus was originally described as new to science in 1998 by mycologists Gastón Guzmán and Fidel Tapia from collections made in Veracruz, Mexico. Its distribution was later revealed to be far more widespread after several DNA studies suggested that it is common in the West Coast of the United States, Israel, Australia, and Cyprus. Young fruit bodies have conical, grayish caps covered with pale ridges and dark pits; mature specimens are yellowish to ochraceous-buff. The surface of the fruit body often bruises brownish orange to pinkish where it has been touched, a characteristic for which the fungus is named. A process to cultivate morels now known to be M. rufob runnea was described and patented in the 1980s. The specific epithet rufo derives from the Latin roots ruf- and brunne-.
Vernacular names used for the fungus include western white morel and red-brown-blushing-morel. The type locality is a mesophytic forest containing oak, sweetgum, Clethra and alder at an altitude of 1,350 m. It is genetically closer to the yellow morels than the black morels. M. anatolica, described from Turkey in 2012, is a closely related sister species. In a 2008 study, Michael Kuo determined that the. Morchella deliciosa found in landscaping sites in the western United States was the same species as M. rufoobrunnea. According to Kuo, David Arora depicts this species in his popular 1986 work Mushrooms Demystified, describing it as a coastal Californian form ofmorchella deliciosa growing in gardens and other suburban habitats. In the Mediterranean under olive trees, however, suggest the fungus may also be able to form facultative tree associations.
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