Paradoxa (fungus)

Paradoxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Tuberaceae
Genus: Paradoxa
Mattir. (1935)
Type species
Paradoxa monospora
Mattir. (1935)
Species

P. gigantospora
P. monospora

Paradoxa is a genus of truffles in the Tuberaceae family.[1] Originally described by the Italian botanist Oreste Mattirolo in 1935,[2] the genus remained monotypic until the species P. gigantospora was transferred from Tuber in 2009.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 495. ISBN 9780851998268. 
  2. ^ Mattirolo O. (1935). "Catalogo ragionato dei funghi ipogei raccolti nel Canton Ticino e nelle provincie Italiane confinanti" (in Italian). Beiträge zur Kryptogamenflora der Schweiz 8 (2): 1–53. 
  3. ^ Wang Y, Hu HT. (2008). "Paradoxa gigantospora comb. nov. from China". Mycotaxon 106: 199–202. 

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