Some epithets with the same spelling can sometimes be interpreted as falling into different grammatical categories, particularly both adjectives (including participles) and nouns, according to their traditional use in botany. Examples of these include nouns that treated (colonus, hybrida), compound which last noun may adjectival (-derma, -folium, -rhiza, -sperma, -spora), or endings are formed ...

The mating system and ploidy level of truffles, both mycorrhizal and sterile fruit-body hyphae are the subject of conflicting hypotheses. The current dogma concerning Ascomycetes, supported by recent studies on truffles, maintains that the mycorrhizing mycelium is homokaryotic and that the short-lived ascogenous heterokaryotic hyphae resulting from the fertilization process occur only in truffl...