''Sarcodon excentricus'' is a species of

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in the family

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. The fungus was originally described in 1951 by

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and Alma Holland Beers. The type collection was made by

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Cades Cove Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park. Today Cades Cove, the single most popular destinati ...

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in 1937. Coker and Beers did not include a description of the fungus written in

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—a requirement of the

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at the time—and so their new species was not validly published. Richard Baird published ''S. excentricus'' validly in 1985.

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* Fungi described in 1985 Fungi of the United States excentricus Fungi without expected TNC conservation status {{Agaricomycetes-stub