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Cenococcum geophilum Fr. is one of the most frequently encountered ECM fungi in nature. This genus is cosmopolitan and is well recognized for its extremely wide host and habitat range. C. geophilum was originally described from its black sclerotia by J. Sowerby in 1800 under the name Lycoperdon graniforme Sow. Elias Fries introduced the genus Cenococcum and the species C. geophilum in 1825, and considered Sowerby’s L. graniforme to be a synonym of C. geophilum Fr. (Fries 1825). In their monographic study of Cenococcum Fr., Ferdinandsen and Winge (1925) made the new combination C. graniforme (Sow.) Ferd. and Winge. The isolation of a “jet-black mycelium” that formed ECM was first identified by Hatch (1934) and provisionally named Mycelium radicus nigrostrigosum Hatch. The connection of these black ECM to C. geophilum was made by Linhell (1942). This black ECM was subsequently reported by many researchers on a wide variety of tree species in different parts of the world (Mikola 1948). C. geophilum Fr. is the sanctioned name.
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LoBuglio, K.F. (1999). Cenococcum. In: Cairney, J.W.G., Chambers, S.M. (eds) Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Key Genera in Profile. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06827-4_12
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