Melanogaster Bruma (Melanogaster broomeanus)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Boletales (Boletales)
- Family: Paxillaceae (Pig)
- Genus: Melanogaster (Melanogaster)
- Type: Melanogaster broomeanus (Melanogaster Bruma)
Melanogaster broomeanus Berk.
The name is dedicated to the English mycologist Christopher Edmund Broome, 1812-1886.
Fruit body
Fruiting bodies are almost spherical or irregularly tuberous, 1.5-8 cm in diameter, with sparse, brown mycelial strands at the base.
Peridium yellow-brown when young, dark brown, dark brown, glabrous or slightly felty, smooth when mature.
Gleba hard gelatinous, initially 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 the soil (ground, litter)
It grows in deciduous forests, shallow in the soil under a layer of fallen leaves.
Fruiting
June July.
Security status
Red Book of the Novosibirsk Region 2008.