Melanogaster broomeanus
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Boletales
- Family: Paxillaceae (Piggies)
- Genus: Melanogaster (Melanogaster)
- Species: Melanogaster broomeanus (Melanogaster Bruma)
or
False truffle
Melanogaster broomeanus Berk.
The name is dedicated to the English mycologist Christopher Edmund Broome, 1812 - 1886.
Fruiting body
Fruit bodies are almost spherical or irregularly tuberous, 1.5 - 8 cm in diameter, at the base with sparse, brown mycelial strands.
Peridium at a young age is yellow-brown, in mature it darkens, brown, dark brown, naked or slightly tomentose, smooth.
Gleb is hard-hardy, first brown, then brown-black, consists of numerous rounded chambers filled with a shiny black gelatinous substance. The layers are white, yellow or blackish.
The smell of mature, drying fruit bodies is very pleasant, fruity.
Habitat
- On soil (ground, litter)
Grows in deciduous forests, shallow in the soil under a layer of fallen leaves.
Fruiting
June July.
Conservation status
Red Data Book of the Novosibirsk Region 2008.
Rare view. It is necessary to control the state of known populations of the species, search for new locations, protect and monitor them.