Family Tuberaceae
[true truffles]
This family contains 6 genera. Classification follows Lumbsch and Huhndorf (2010).
- Choiromyces
- Dingleya
- Labyrinthomyces
- Paradoxa
- Reddelomyces
- Tuber
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Tuberaceae , Commentationes botanicae: 69, 79 (1822). Type: Tuber P. Micheli ex F.H. Wigg. 1780.
- Taxonomy
- This family appears related to the Helvellaceae according to O'Donnell et al. (1997).
- Description links
- Lumbsch, H.T. & S.H. Huhndorf. 2010. Myconet Volume 14. Part One. Outline of Ascomycota—2009. Part Two. Notes on Ascomycete Systematics. Nos. 4751–5113. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences Number 1:1-64. PDF 1.13 MB
- O'Donnell, K., E. Cigelnik, N.S. Weber and J.M. Trappe. 1997. Phylogenetic Relationships among Ascomycetous Truffles and the True and False Morels Inferred from 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequence Analysis. Mycologia 89: 48-65. DOI: 10.2307/3761172
- Taxon links
- 81502 Tuberaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum