Morchella sceptriformis explained

Morchella sceptriformis is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae (Ascomycota). It was described as new to science in a 2012 study by Clowez,^[1] and corresponds to phylogenetic lineage Mes-3.^[2] Morchella virginiana, described later in the same year by Kuo and colleagues, is conspecific to this taxon.^[3]

This putatively endemic North American morel is so far known from North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Virginia, where it is found under the American tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).

Notes and References

1. Clowez P. . Les morilles. Une nouvelle approche mondiale du genre Morchella . Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France . 2012 . 126 . 3–4 . 199–376 (see p. 238) . French.
2. O'Donnell K, Rooney AP, Mills GL, Kuo M, Weber NS, Rehner SA . Fungal Genetics and Biology . 2011 . 48 . 3 . 252–265 . Phylogeny and historical biogeography of true morels (Morchella) reveals an early Cretaceous origin and high continental endemism and provincialism in the Holarctic . 20888422 . 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.09.006 . 2018-12-29 . 2021-01-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210131051423/https://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=49542&content=PDF . dead .
3. Kuo M, Dewsbury DR, O'Donnell K, Carter MC, Rehner SA, Moore JD, Moncalvo JM, Canfield SA, Stephenson SL, Methven AS, Volk TJ . Taxonomic revision of true morels (Morchella) in Canada and the United States . Mycologia . 2012 . 10.3852/11-375 . 22495449 . 104 . 5 . 1159–1177. 45219627 .