Kalaharituber

Kalaharituber
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pezizaceae
Genus: Kalaharituber
Trappe & Kagan-Zur (2005)
Species:
K. pfeilii
Binomial name
Kalaharituber pfeilii
(Henn.) Trappe & Kagan-Zur (2005)
Synonyms
  • Terfezia pfeilii Henn. (1895)

Kalaharituber is a fungal genus in the family Pezizaceae. It is a monotypic genus, whose single truffle-like species, Kalaharituber pfeilii, is found in the Kalahari Desert, which spans the larger part of Botswana, the east of Namibia and the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.