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Gummiglobus

Gummiglobus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hysterangiales
Family: Mesophelliaceae
Genus: Gummiglobus
Trappe, Castellano & Amar. (1996)
Type species
Gummiglobus joyceae
Trappe, Castellano & Amar. (1996)
Species

G. agglutinosporus
G. joyceae


G. agglutinosporus
G. joyceae

Gummiglobus is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus contains Australian two species described as new to science in 1996. The species, G. agglutinosporus and G. joyceae, "have columellae with wedge-shaped to digitate or strand-like projections that extend to the endocutis of the peridium and are embedded in a remarkable gummy tissue".



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