Biology:Terfezia
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| Genus: | Terfezia (Tul. & C.Tul.) Tul. & C.Tul. (1851)
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Terfezia (Berber: Tirfas) is a genus of truffle-like fungi within the Pezizaceae family. Terfezia species are commonly known as desert truffles. Some authorities consider this the type genus of the family Terfeziaceae,[1] although phylogenetic analysis suggests that it nests within the Pezizaceae.[2] The Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008) suggests that the genus contains 12 species.[2] A recent (2011) publication used molecular analysis to show that the American Terfezia species had been incorrectly classified, and moved Terfezia spinosa and Terfezia longii to Mattirolomyces and Stouffera, respectively; as a result, no Terfezia species are known to exist in North America.[3]
Israeli agricultural scientists have been attempting to domesticate T. boudieri into a commercial crop.[4]
Species
(As of December 2015), Index Fungorum accepts 34 species in Terfezia:[5]
- Terfezia albida[6]
- Terfezia alsheikhii[7]
- Terfezia aphroditis
- Terfezia arenaria
- Terfezia berberiodora
- Terfezia boudieri
- Terfezia cadevalli
- Terfezia canariensis
- Terfezia castanea
- Terfezia claveryi
- Terfezia decaryi
- Terfezia deflersii
- Terfezia eliocrocae[6]
- Terfezia eremita
- Terfezia extremadurensis[6]
- Terfezia fanfani
- Terfezia hafizi
- Terfezia hanotauxii
- Terfezia hispanica
- Terfezia indica
- Terfezia leptoderma
- Terfezia lutescens
- Terfezia magnusii
- Terfezia mellerionis
- Terfezia metaxasi
- Terfezia olbiensis
- Terfezia ovalispora
- Terfezia pallida
- Terfezia pini[6]
- Terfezia pseudoleptoderma[6]
- Terfezia rosea
- Terfezia schweinfurthii
- Terfezia sinuosa
- Terfezia transcaucasica
- Terfezia zeynebiae
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Terfezia (Tul. & C. Tul.) Tul. & C. Tul.". Species Fungorum. CAB International. http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=5378. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 682. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ↑ "Terfezia disappears from the American truffle mycota as two new genera and Mattirolomyces species emerge". Mycologia 103 (4): 831–40. 2011. doi:10.3852/10-273. PMID 21262987.
- ↑ Nargi, Lela (2019-07-01). "As Israel's Desert Truffles Become Scarce, a Researcher Works to Grow Them as Crops" (in en). http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/desert-truffles.
- ↑ Kirk PM.. "Species Fungorum (version 20th November 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/c8f321bfe914782d61043d26f5c9d904. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Five new Terfezia species from the Iberian Peninsula". Mycotaxon 124: 189–208. 2013. doi:10.5248/124.189.
- ↑ "The diversity of Terfezia desert truffles: new species and a highly variable species complex with intrasporocarpic nrDNA ITS heterogeneity". Mycologia 103 (4): 841–53. 2011. doi:10.3852/10-312. PMID 21289106.
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