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Tuber gibbosum

Tuber gibbosum
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Tuberaceae
Genus: Tuber
Species: T. gibbosum
Binomial name
Tuber gibbosum
Harkness (1899)
Tuber gibbosum
Mycological characteristics
glebal hymenium
hymenium attachment is not applicable
lacks a stipe

spore print is blackish-brown

to brown
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: choice

spore print is blackish-brown

Tuber gibbosum is a species of truffle in the genus Tuber. It is found in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, where it grows in an ectomycorrhizal association with Douglas-fir.

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The species was first described by American mycologist Harvey Wilson Harkness in 1899. The specific epithet derives from the Latin word gibbosum meaning "humped", and refers to the irregular lobes and humps on larger specimens. T. gibbosum is part of the Gibbosum clade of the genus Tuber. Species in this clade have unusual "peculiar wall thickenings on hyphal tips emerging from the peridial surface at maturity."


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