Rediscover Species of Fungus Not Registered in Concepción More than a Century Ago

Discovered for the first time more than a century ago, Nothojafnea thaxteri reappears on Campus Nature UdeC, showing the value of the remnants of native forest. Concepción, May 15, 2025(udec.cl)– In November 1906, the American mycologist Roland Thaxter toured the woods of Concepción and collected, without knowing it, a species hitherto unknown to science: a small mushroom in the form of a cup, today known as Nothojafnea thaxteri. More than a cen…