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Family:

Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)

Primary Citation:

Symbolae Gasteromycorum ad illustrandam Flora Suecicam 1: 5. 1817

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Diagnosis: Basidiomata sequestrate, hypogeous to erumpent. Peridium dry, pruinose to subtomentose, sometimes with overlaying rhizomorphs, sometimes bruising, white to yellow to brown to reddish brown. Gleba dry, minutely loculose, whitish at first, eventually brownish, lacking a columella. Spores smooth, ellipsoid to fusoid, hyaline to pale yellowish. Clamp connections absent.

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Type species: Rhizopogon luteolus Fr. & Nordholm

Distribution: Northern Hemisphere. Often present where introduced with Pinaceae (Australia, New Zealand, South America).

Ectomycorrhiza: Pinaceae

Commentary: Phylogenetic inference places the genus in suborder Suillineae.