''Chondrogaster'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

truffle A truffle is the Sporocarp (veggie), fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus ''Tuber (fungus), Tuber''. In addition to ''Tuber'', many other genera of fungi are classified as truf ...

-like

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in the

Mesophelliaceae The Mesophelliaceae are a family of truffle-fungi in the order Hysterangiales. The family contains 8 genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viru ...

family. The genus, described by French mycologist

René Maire René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (29 May 1878, Lons-le-Saunier – 24 November 1949) was a French botanist and mycologist. His major work was the ''Flore de l'Afrique du Nord'' in 16 volumes published posthumously in 1953. He collected plants fr ...

in 1926, contains two species, the

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Chondrogaster pachysporus, and Chondrogaster angustisporus, described in 2000. Collectively, ''Chondrogaster'' is found in Mauritania, Brazil, and Europe.

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* Hysterangiales Truffles (fungi) Agaricomycetes genera Taxa named by René Maire {{Agaricomycetes-stub