MycoKey : the genus Tuber

Generic short diagnoses: Smooth or warty, whitish, brownish or blackish, firm ascomycete truffles with marbled gleba, sac-like asci and large, globose to ellipsoid, reticulate or spiny, pale to dark brown spores.


Species example:


Tuber aestivum - DK: sommer-trøffel UK: Summer Truffle - asci and spores
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Denmark, CL93-193

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