Taxon Details: Melanogaster Corda in Sturm
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Family:

Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:

Melanogaster Corda in Sturm
Primary Citation:

Die Pilze Deutschlands
Deutschl. Fl. (Sturm), Abt. 3, Pilze Deutschl. 3: 1. 1831
Accepted Name:

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)