Summer Truffle
Tuber aestivum (Wulfen) Spreng.
A species in the family Tuberaceae, order Pezizales. Recorded under 2 common names across 2 languages.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Order
- Pezizales
- Family
- Tuberaceae
- Genus
- Tuber
What it is called
- English
- Summer Truffle
- Welsh
- Cloren Foch
Also known as
Older literature may use these names. They all refer to the same species.
- Hymenangium aestivum (Wulfen) Rabenh.
- Tuber album subsp. aestivum (Wulfen) Pers.
- Tuber blotii Eudes-Desl.
Others in Tuber
Classification and names from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (CC-BY 4.0).
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