{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Gummiglobus | authority = Trappe, Castellano & Amar. (1996) | type_species = ''Gummiglobus joyceae'' | type_species_authority = Trappe, Castellano & Amar. (1996) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''G. agglutinosporus''<br> ''G. joyceae'' }}

'''''Gummiglobus''''' is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Mesophelliaceae family.<ref name=Kirk2008/> The genus contains two Australian species described as new to science in 1996. The species, ''G.&nbsp;agglutinosporus'' and ''G.&nbsp;joyceae'', "have columellae with wedge-shaped to digitate or strand-like projections that extend to the endocutis of the peridium and are embedded in a remarkable gummy tissue".<ref name=Trappe1996/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=Kirk2008>{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=296 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>

<ref name=Trappe1996>{{cite journal |vauthors=Trappe JM, Casterllano MA, Amaranthus MP |title=Australasian truffle-like fungi. VIII. ''Gummiglobus'' and ''Andebbia'' gen. nov. (Basidiomycotina, Mesophelliaceae) and a supplement to the nomenclatural bibliography of Basidiomycotina |journal=Australian Systematic Botany |year=1996 |volume=9 |issue=5 |pages=803–11 |doi=10.1071/SB9960803}}</ref>

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Category:Hysterangiales Category:Truffles (fungi) Category:Agaricomycetes genera Category:Taxa named by James Trappe

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