
%0 Journal Article
%A Bougher, Neale L. 
%T New species of <emph type="2">Torrendia</emph>  (Fungi, Agaricales) from remnant woodlands in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia
%J Australian Systematic Botany
%D 1999/05/31
%V 12
%N 1
%P 145-156
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/SB97038
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SB97038 
%X Two new species of sequestrate (truffle-like fungi) Basidiomycetes of the putatively ectomycorrhizal genus Torrendia Bres. with contrasting basidiome morphology are described from remnant patches of eucalypt woodland in the wheatbelt of Western Australia: Torrendia grandis Bougher and Torrendia inculta Bougher.Like other species of Torrendia, they have basidiomes which develop and mature mostly underground but may break through to the soil surface at a late stage of maturity. The gleba of Torrendia species does not become powdery. A comparison of the main diagnostic features of all known taxa of Torrendiais provided. T. grandishas stocky basidiomes with an agaric-like pileus. T. inculta has a gleba which fragments during stipe elongation. The basidiome development of T. incultaisdescribed and illustrated, and some possible mechanisms of spore dispersal are discussed. 
