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Issue: Vol. 298 No. 3: 14 March 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.4
Page range: 253–260
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 2

Tuber sinoniveum, a new white Chinese truffle species from Yunnan, China

Faculty of Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, People’s Republic of China
College of Resource and Environment, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650100, People’s Republic of China
Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People’s Republic of China
College of Resource and Environment, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650100, People’s Republic of China
Faculty of Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, People’s Republic of China
Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People’s Republic of China
Phylogeny Puberulum group taxonomy white truffles Fungi China

Abstract

We describe a new species of Tuber from Yunnan Province, China, based on molecular and morphological data. This species is characterized by its snow-white ascomata, pubescent peridia and subglobose or globose ascospores. Tuber sinoniveum sp. nov. is phylogenetically closely related to T. sinosphaerosporum but differs in having ascospores with more meshes (3–9 along) and glabrous peridia. Phylogenetic placement of this novel Tuber species is in the Puberulum group.