Cortinarius eartoxicus

Cortinarius eartoxicus is a species of potentially lethal fungus in the family Cortinariaceae native to Tasmania. It was implicated in the poisoning of two people who collected it at Fortescue Bay on the Tasman Peninsula in December 1985, one of whom required a kidney transplant. The toxin orellanine was later recovered from the species.[1]

Cortinarius eartoxicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Cortinariaceae
Genus:
Cortinarius
Species:
C. eartoxicus
Binomial name
Cortinarius eartoxicus
Gasparini (2004)

See also

References
  1. Gasparini B (2004). "Cortinarius subgenus Orellani in Australia and in the world" (PDF). Australasian Mycologist. 23 (2): 62–76.
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