Taxon Details: Melanogaster Corda in Sturm
Taxon Profile:
Narratives:
Family:
Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)
Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:
Melanogaster Corda in Sturm
Melanogaster Corda in Sturm
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Diagnosis: Basidiomata sequestrate, usually hypogeous. Peridium well developed, dry, slightly pruinose, ochre to ochraceous yellow to reddish brown, sometimes with adherent rhzimorphs. Gleba gel-filled at maturity, whitish at first then dark brown to black at maturity, lacking well-developed hymenium, with whitish to yellowish tramal plates, lacking a sterile base and columella. Spores smooth, dark brown, orthotropic, with well-developed sterigmal apendage, ovoid to ellipsoid, fusoid to limoniform. Clamp connections present.
Registration number: MB 19214
Ectomycorrhiza: Presumed with Pinaceae, Fagaceae, Betulaceae.
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere, Central America.
Commentary: Phylogenetic inference places the genus in the Paxillaceae (Family at top of record is NY filing family)
Diagnosis: Basidiomata sequestrate, usually hypogeous. Peridium well developed, dry, slightly pruinose, ochre to ochraceous yellow to reddish brown, sometimes with adherent rhzimorphs. Gleba gel-filled at maturity, whitish at first then dark brown to black at maturity, lacking well-developed hymenium, with whitish to yellowish tramal plates, lacking a sterile base and columella. Spores smooth, dark brown, orthotropic, with well-developed sterigmal apendage, ovoid to ellipsoid, fusoid to limoniform. Clamp connections present.
Registration number: MB 19214
Ectomycorrhiza: Presumed with Pinaceae, Fagaceae, Betulaceae.
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere, Central America.
Commentary: Phylogenetic inference places the genus in the Paxillaceae (Family at top of record is NY filing family)