Chondrogaster

Chondrogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hysterangiales
Family:	Mesophelliaceae
Genus:	Chondrogaster Maire (1926)
Type species
Chondrogaster pachysporus Maire (1926)
Species
C. angustisporus C. pachysporus

Chondrogaster is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus, described by French mycologist René Maire in 1926,^[1] contains two species, the type C. pachysporus, and C. angustisporus, described in 2000.^[2] Collectively, Chondrogaster is found in Mauritania, Brazil, and Europe.^[3]

References

1. ^ Maire R. (1924). "Études mycologiques (fascicule 2)" (in French). Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 40 (3): 293–317. 
2. ^ Giachini AJ, Oliveira VL, Castellano MA, Trappe JM. (2000). "Ectomycorrhizal fungi in Eucalyptus and Pinus plantations in southern Brazil". Mycologia 92 (6): 1166–77. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0092/006/1166.htm. 
3. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 138. ISBN 9780851998268. 

External links

• Chondrogaster in Index Fungorum.