[3] All species in the genus are completely dependent on fungus-growing termites, the Macrotermitinae, to survive, and vice versa.

[4] They are the food source for these termites, who enjoy an obligate symbiosis with the genus[5] similar to that between Atta ants and Attamyces mushrooms.

French conducted some investigations with the help of the elderly Baganda women who gathered termite mushrooms, and published his findings.

[10] The termites collect and chew up dead wood, leaf litter and other vegetable debris, depositing their primary faeces as new portions of the fungus garden.

[13] For T. microcarpus, the mushrooms grow from fragments of fungus garden that are carried outside the nest by worker termites.