Hydnocystis bombycina (Vittad.) Healy & M. E. Sm., Fung. Biol., 121 (3): 272 (2017).
Basionym Genea bombycina Vittad., Mon. Tuber.: 29 (1831).
Diagnosis Subglobosa, depressa, peridio molliusculo, floccoso, e rima apicali in cavum uteri irregulariter intruso, fibrillis radicantibus destitute. Caro gyroso-venosa, intus tantum sporangifera. Sporidia pellucida, sphaerica.
Odor intensissimus veluti aeris hydrogenii sulphurati. Fungus folliculum bombycinum referens, coloris flavescentis, magnitudine nucis avellanae vel majori. Superficies ejus undique tegitur membrane, filis flavescentibus confertissimis arachnoideis varie intertextis format. Uterus, e peridio laxe intruso, plerumque cavus, sed floccis gossypinis repletus, ore etiam obducto. Peridium exterius, intrusum ambiens, sterile. Caro alba, mollis, exsucca, pars tamen sporangifera humida, flavescens.
Vulgo Spuzzetto, quo nomine omnes Fungi hujus familiae graveolentes designantur.
Mensibus aestivis sub salice in locis humidis planitiei transpadanae, praesertim circa Althaeae officinalis radices, copiose effoditur. Legi etiam in sylva quercina depressa agri mediolanensis in loco dicto la Bruciata secus flumen Lambro. Augusto.
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Homotypic Stephensia bombycina (Vittad.) Tul. & C. Tul., C. R. Acad.sci., Paris, 21: 1433 (1845).
MycoBank 814818
Literature
Alvarado P., Moreno G., Manjón J.L., Gelpi C., Kaounas V., Konstantinidis G. 2011. First molecular data on Delastria rosea, Fischerula macrospora and Hydnocystis piligera. Boletín de la Sociedad Micológica de Madrid, 35: 31-37.
Kers L.E. 1980. Stephensia bombycina funnen i Sverige. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift, 74: 25-28.
Kumar L.M., Smith M.E., Nouhra E.R., Orihara T., Sandoval P., Pfister D.H., McLaughlin D.J., Trappe J.M., Healy R.A. 2017. A molecular and morphological re-examination of the generic limits of truffles in the Tarzetta-Geopyxis lineage – Densocarpa, Hydnocystis, and Paurocotylis. Fungal Biology, 121 (3): 264-284.
Montecchi A., Sarasini M. 2000. Funghi Ipogei d'Europa.
Pegler D.N., Spooner B.M., Young T.W.K. 1993. British Truffles.
Perez J.B. 2012. Liste commentée des champignons hypogés exhumés et mis au jour. Bulletin de la Société mycologique de Lorraine, 14: 11-21.
Vittadini C. 1831. Monographia Tuberacearum.
Classification: Tarzettaceae, Hydnocystis
Created on 11/09/2013.
Updated on 01/08/2023.
