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Genus of fungi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elaphomyces (‘deer truffles’) is a genus of hypogeous fungi in the family Elaphomycetaceae. The widespread genus contains 25 truffle-like species.[2] Elaphomyces is one of the most important ectomycorrhizal fungal genera in temperate and subarctic forest ecosystems.[3] E. asperulus, E. granulatus, and E. muricatus were found to accumulate arsenic (12–660 mg/kg in dry mass); the composition of organoarsenicals is very unusual, with methylarsonic acid and trimethylarsine oxide as major As compounds.[4]
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Elaphomyces muricatus | |
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Genus: | Elaphomyces Nees (1820) |
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Elaphomyces granulatus Fr. (1829) | |
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25, see text | |
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