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Greetings from belowground: two new species of truffles in the genus Pachyphlodes (Pezizaceae, Pezizales) from México [PDF]
Pachyphlodes is a lineage of ectomycorrhizal, hypogeous, sequestrate ascomycete fungi native to temperate and subtropical forests in the Northern Hemisphere. Pachyphlodes species form ectomycorrhizae mainly with Fagales hosts.
Carolina Piña Páez +6 more
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Mycophagy (fungivory) performs numerous important ecosystem functions for fungi, plants, and animals. Fungi serve as food for diverse mammals, ranging from bears, Ursus spp., to shrews, Sorex spp.
Todd F. Elliott +2 more
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Four Tuber species accompanying T. mesentericum in natural sites in Poland
Tuber rufum Pico: Fr., T. ferrugineum Vittad., T. maculatum Vittad. and T. fulgens Quél. have been identified among hypogeous fungi occurring together with T. mesentericum in natural sites in the Cze¸ stochowa region (S Poland).
Maria Ławrynowicz
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Fungi are an important food source for a diversity of animals throughout the world, but these associations have been poorly studied in Africa. In this short note based on an observation from the Congo Basin of Cameroon, we provide the first report of ...
Todd F. Elliott +3 more
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Phylogenetic Analyses of Hydnobolites and New Species from China
Hydnobolites is an ectomycorrhizal fungal genus with hypogeous ascomata in the family Pezizaceae (Pezizales). Molecular analyses of Hydnobolites using both single (ITS) and concatenated gene datasets (ITS-nLSU) showed a total of 223 sequences, including ...
Shan-Ping Wan +7 more
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Octaviania asterosperma (hypogeous Basidiomycota). Recent data to ecology and distribution
Phylogenetic analyses place Octaviania asterosperma in the Boletales, with Leccinum being the closest relative. Results of the structural investigation of O. asterosperma ectomycorrhiza with Fagus sylvatica confirm this systematic position. In Europe the
Piotr Mleczko +3 more
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Tuber mesentericum, an interesting species of black truffles in PoIand
Tuber mesentericum Vitt. is the only member of black truffles collected in Po|and in the calcareous area at the Częstochowa Upland. It was discovered in 1981 in old beech wood at the Zielona Góra nature reserve (Ławrynowicz 1988, 1990).
Maria Ławrynowicz
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Among many convergently evolved sequestrate fungal genera in Boletaceae (Boletales, Basidiomycota), the genus Octaviania is the most diverse. We recently collected many specimens of Octaviania subg.
Takamichi Orihara +3 more
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Small mammals feeding on hypogeous fungi [PDF]
Fungi serve as a food source for a wide variety of animals. Among mammals, most species feed on fungi occasionally or accidentally while foraging for other type of food, but some species are frequent mycophags and fungi can be a dominant component of their diet.
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Broadening the distribution of Mattirolomyces mexicanus Kovács, Trappe & Alsheikh (Pezizales, Ascomycota), a rare truffle-like fungus from Mexico [PDF]
Mattirolomyces mexicanus Kovács, Trappe & Alsheikh is recorded for the first time from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, based on morphological and molecular data. This species is characterized by the whitish membranous peridium
Javier Isaac de la Fuente +5 more
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