RHIZOPOGONACEAE Gäum. & C.W. Dodge
(beard truffles)

RHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

RHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

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Rhizopogon
beard truffles
Genus 5 subtaxa 9 trophisms 3 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyRHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles)
OrderBOLETALES (spongecap toadstools and their relatives, boletes)
SubclassAGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
ClassAGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
SubphylumAGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
PhylumBASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for RHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles)

RHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to RHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 20 images of RHIZOPOGONACEAE (beard truffles)

These are not puff-balls - they rely on animals eating them to spread the spores, so ripe spores can be found even while the fruitbody is soft and semi-gelatinised, though not if still white within.

The spores are coloured so show up reasonbly well, but the basidia seem to break up in ammonia and to resist staining by Cotton Blue in Lactophenol and Melzer’s Iodine. Melzer’s seems as good as anything.

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