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Dictyocephalos

Dictyocephalos L.M. Underwood ex V.S. White 1901, in Long & Plunkett, Mycologia, 32(6), 696-709 (1940).

Diagnosis: Sporophore hypogeous, enclosed in a volva during early stages of growth, erumpent as maturity approaches; stipitate, stem stout, solid, becoming woody; peridium of two layers, outer ( exoperidium) roughened, inner ( endoperidium) coriaceous to membranaceous, seated on the expanded discoid apex of the stipe ; dehiscence by the irregular breaking away of the peridium; gleba powdery, having permanent cells, spores, and persistent fascicles of basidia, true capillitium none; spores globose to subglobose, fulvous, verrucose.

Index Fungorum Number: IF19097

Type Species: Dictyocephalos attenuatus (Peck) Long & Plunkett 1940, , in Long & Plunkett, Mycologia, 32(6), 696-709 (1940).

 

Species:

Dictyocephalos attenuatus (Peck) Long & Plunkett 1940

Dictyocephalos curvatus Underw. 1901

Dictyocephalos japonicus Kawam. 1954

Dictyocephalos strobilinus (Kalchbr.) Vassilkov 1954

Dictyocephalos xinjiangensis R.L. Zhao, M.Q. He & J.X. Li 2021

 

Reference:

Long, W.H., & Plunkett, O.A. (1940). Studies in the Gasteromycetes. I. The genus Dictyocephalos. Mycologia, 32(6), 696-709.

 

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