The genus () in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin: a morphological and phylogenetic taxonomic revision.

Type material and additional collections of 11 taxa of described in Europe and North Africa have been studied, namely , , var. , var. , var.

A phylogenetic and taxonomic revision of sequestrate in Mediterranean and temperate Europe.

A comprehensive morphological and genetic study of type material and new collections of sequestrate species formerly belonging to the genera , , , , , , , and is here undertaken, for the purpose of providing a complete taxonomical revision of sequestrate species in the Mediterranean and temperate regions of Europe. As a result, seven distinct taxa in the genus and 18 in the genus are identified. Six of them are new species: , , , , and , and seven represent new combinations: (≡ ), (≡ ), (≡ ), (≡ ), var.

sp. nov., a black truffle of the Aestivum clade (Tuberaceae, Pezizales) from the Balkan peninsula.

Knowledge on the diversity of hypogeous sequestrate ascomycetes is still limited in the Balkan Peninsula. A new species of truffle, , is described from Greece and Bulgaria. Specimens were collected from habitats dominated by various oak species (i.