Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Chinese:
Qi Ta Song Lu
Common Names in Dutch:
Bieke Truffel
Common Names in English:
Cercuse Truffle, Tuscany White Truffle, Whitish Truffle
Common Names in Finnish:
Multasieni, Tryffeli
Common Names in French:
Truffe Blanchâtre, Truffe Blanche De Borch
Common Names in German:
Pico-Weiße Trüffel, Weissliche Trüffel
Common Names in Hungarian:
Késõi Szarvasgomba
Common Names in Italian:
Bianchetto, Marzaiuolo, Marzuolo, Tartufo Bianchetto, Tartufo Bianco
Common Names in Spanish:
Trufa Blanca
Common Names in Swedish:
Vit Tryffel
Description
Genus Tuber
(L. tuber: bump , outgrowth) A swollen underground stem or root in certain plants . It enables the plant to survive the winter or dry season and is also a means of propagation . A stem tuber , such as the potato, forms at the end of an underground stem. Each tuber represents several nodes and internodes. The following season several new plants develop from the terminal and axillary buds (eyes). Root tubers , such as those of the dahlia, are modified food-storing adventitious roots and may also give rise to new plants. In liverworts, geotropic outgrowth from the shoot apex, composed of perennating tissue , allowing for aestivation and subsequent continued growth or vegetative reproduction; e.g. Petalophyllum; in mosses, gemmae born on rhizoids (rhizoidal gemmae), found in many acrocarpous mosses; e.g. Bryum.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Fungi
()
- T.L. Jahn & F.F. Jahn, 1949 ex R.T. Moore, 1980
- Fungi
- Subkingdom:
Dikarya
()
- D.S. Hibbett et al., in D.S. Hibbett et al., 2007
- Phylum:
Ascomycota
()
- H.C. Bold, 1957 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Sac Fungi
- Subphylum:
Pezizomycotina
()
- O.E. Eriksson & K. Winka, 1997
- Class:
Pezizomycetes
()
- O.E. Eriksson & K. Winka, 1997
- Order:
Pezizales
()
- J. Schrt., in Engler & Prantl, eds., 1894
- Family:
Tuberaceae
()
- Dumort., 1822
- Genus:
Tuber
()
- F.H. Wigg., 1780
- Specific descriptor:
borchii
- Vittad. 1831
- Scientific name: - Tuber borchii Vittad. 1831
- Specific descriptor:
borchii
- Vittad. 1831
- Genus:
Tuber
(
- Family:
Tuberaceae
(
- Order:
Pezizales
(
- Class:
Pezizomycetes
(
- Subphylum:
Pezizomycotina
(
- Phylum:
Ascomycota
(
- Subkingdom:
Dikarya
(
- Kingdom:
Fungi
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 05-Sep-2008
Similar Species
Members of the genus Tuber
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:
T. aestivum (Red-Grained Black Truffle) · T. borchii (Tuscany White Truffle) · T. brumale (Violet Truffle) · T. cibarium (Black Truffle) · T. gibbosum (American Truffle (Australia)) · T. giganteum (Oregon Grey Truffle) · T. himalayense (Asian Black Truffle) · T. magnatum (White Piedmont Truffle) · T. melanosporum (Black Perigord Truffle) · T. rufum (Red Truffle) · T. uncinatum (Burgundy Truffle)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:
- GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid: MA-Fungi
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Botanical Museum, Copenhagen, the Lichen Herbarium
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Danish Mycological Society, fungal records database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: SF-NZ-220786
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14379648
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:118774
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2541961
