B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 36. 2005 (Budapest, 2005)

Siller, Irén, Vasas, Gizella , Pál-Fám, Ferenc , Bratek, Zoltán , Zagyva, Imre; Fodor, Lívia: Hungarian distribution of the legally protected macrofungi species

Elaphomyces anthracinus Vittad. (Elaphomycetales, Elaphomycetaceae) Fruit-body, hypogeous, hard, globose or ovoid to pyriform, often depressed, up to 13 mm diam. Peridial surface brownish black, carbonaceous, appearing smooth to naked eye. Inner peridium whitish, later becoming grey. Gieba: dingy white to grey, cottony at first, filled powdery mass of spores in mature specimens, sometimes with a central hollow. Spore: globose, nearly black, ornamented with minute rods distributed densely and evenly, relatively small (15-19 ëm diam. excluding ornamentation). Life-strategy: mycorrhiza. Occurrences in Hungary, habitats: In spite of over 100 years of work on truffles of the Carpatho-Pannonian region only few collections are known. It can be collected at all times of the year, under oaks, hornbeam and beech. Distribution, frequency: Reported from several European countries and North America, but it is rare everywhere. Hungarian red list category: 1. Justification: It seems to be quite a rare species being difficult to distinguish macroscopically from the other rare Elaphomyces species with blackish surface. It is included in the red lists of several European countries. Known Hungarian records: HOLLÓS (1911, 1933): Kecskemét: Nyírerdő (sub Quercus robur), Litke (Nógrád megye) (sub Fagus sylvatica). SZEMÉRE (1965): Királytelek (Nyírség, leg.: Ubrizsy, Quercetum), Somogy megye: Somogyfajsz (sub Quercus), Felsőtapazd-puszta, Bakony: Hárskút. BRATEK etal. (1999): Aggteleki-karszt: Bódvaszilas (silva mixta), Gerecse: Malom-völgy (Carpino-Quercetum). Elaphomyces leveliiéi Vittad. (Elaphomycetales, Elaphomycetaceae) Fruit-body: hard and fragile, subglobose, often depressed at both sides, up to 3 cm diam., wrapped by a greenish yellow mycelial crust. Peridial surface dark blackish brown, carbonaceous, covered with small flat warts, with few persistent greenish yellow spots. Gieba: when mature turned into blackish spora powder. Spore: globose, covered by very fine, dense rods, 20-22.5 ëm diam. Life-strategy: mycorrhiza.