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SUBMITTER: Eberhart J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451770 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eberhart J J Trappe J J Páez C Piña CP Bonito G G
Fungal systematics and evolution 20200625
<i>Tuber luomae,</i> a new truffle species known only from the Pacific Northwest, USA, is distinguished by spiny, non-reticulate spores and a two-layered peridium - the outermost layer (pellis) consists of inflated, globose to subpolygonal cells and the inner (subpellis) of narrow hyphae. ITS sequence analyses show that it has phylogenetic affinity to other <i>Tuber</i> species in the Rufum clade. The only other members of the Rufum clade with a strongly developed peridiopellis of large, inflate ...[more]