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Christmas Island Botanical Postage Stamps


Date of issue: 30 April 1984
Designer: Ian Loe
Printer: Format International

Part of a series of five fungi stamps

Fungus: Phillipsia domingensis

Family: SAROSCYPHACEAE

No common name

This fungus is widespread in the tropics. The original description of the
species (in 1852) was based on a specimen collected in Santo Domingo,
in the Caribbean. That locality is the basis for the appearance of
'domingensis' in the Latin name.


 


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