Terfezia disappears from the American truffle mycota as two new genera and Mattirolomyces species emerge

Gábor M. Kovács; James M. Trappe; Abdulmagid M. Alsheikh; Karen Hansen; Rosanne A. Healy; Pál Vági

doi:10.3852/10-273

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Terfezia disappears from the American truffle mycota as two new genera and Mattirolomyces species emerge

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Authors:

Gábor M. Kovács, James M. Trappe, Abdulmagid M. Alsheikh, Karen Hansen, Rosanne A. Healy, Pál Vági

Year:

2011

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3852/10-273

Source:

Mycologia. 103(4): 831-840

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Abstract

Reexamination and molecular phylogenetic analyses of American Terfezia species and Mattirolomyces tiffanyae revealed that their generic assignments were wrong. Therefore we here propose these combinations: Mattirolomyces spinosus comb. nov. (=Terfezia spinosa), Stouffera longii gen. & comb. nov. (=Terfezia longii) and Temperantia tiffanyae gen. & comb. nov. (=Mattirolomyces tiffanyae). In addition we describe a new species, Mattirolomyces mexicanus spec. nov. All species belong to the Pezizaceae. Based on these results Terfezia is not known from North America, Mattirolomyces is represented by two species and two new monotypic genera are present.

Keywords

Ascomycota, ascospore, biogeography, Pezizaceae, Pezizales, scanning electron microscopy, Stouffera, Temperantia, truffle

Citation

Kovács, Gábor M.; Trappe, James M.; Alsheikh, Abdulmagid M.; Hansen, Karen; Healy, Rosanne A.; Vági, Pál. 2011. Terfezia disappears from the American truffle mycota as two new genera and Mattirolomyces species emerge. Mycologia. 103(4): 831-840.