MycoKey : the genus Leucophleps

Generic short diagnoses: Smooth, whitish to yellowish basidiomycete truffles with whitish gleba excuding milk when cut and ± globose, warty-spiny, hyaline spores with a gelatinous membrane.


Species example:


Leucophleps aculeatispora
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Italy

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