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  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
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  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies
  7. ›Marasmiineae
  8. ›Omphalotaceae
  9. ›Omphalotus
Mexican Blue Jack o' Lantern
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Mexican Blue Jack o' Lantern

Omphalotus mexicanus

Omphalotus mexicanus is a gilled basidiomycete mushroom in the Marasmiaceae family. Found in Mexico, it was described as new to science in 1984. Fruit bodies contain the compounds illudin S and illudin M.

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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 351651.