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Crustomyces

Crustomyces Jülich 1978, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 187 (2020).

Diagnosis: Basidiome annual, resupinate, effused, crustaceous, adnate, hymenophore smooth, odontioid or hydnoid, pale coloured, rhizomorphs or hyphal strands lacking. Hyphal system (mono-) dimitic, generative hyphae hyaline, cylindrical or torulose, with clamps., skeletal hyphae hyaline, about 3 μm in diameter. Cystidia (gloeocystidia) and/or dendrohyphidia present. Basidia clavate, with four sterigmata and a basal clamp. Basidiospores ellipsoid, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline, not amyloid.

Index Fungorum Number: IF25476

Type Species: Crustomyces subabruptus (Bourdot & Galzin) Jülich 1978

Species:

Crustomyces albidus Yue Li, Nakasone, C.L. Zhao & S.H. He 2022

Crustomyces conspicuus (Pouzar) K.H. Larss. 2023

Crustomyces expallens (Bres.) Hjortstam 1987

Crustomyces heteromorphus (Hallenb.) Hjortstam 1987

Crustomyces indecorus Hjortstam 1987

Crustomyces isabellinus (Berk. & Broome) Yue Li, Nakasone & S.H. He 2022

Crustomyces juniperi S.L. Liu & L.W. Zhou 2024

Crustomyces laminifer (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Yue Li, Nakasone & S.H. He 2022

Crustomyces pini-canadensis (Schwein.) Jülich 1978

Crustomyces scytinostromoides S.L. Liu & L.W. Zhou 2024

Crustomyces stratosus (Burds. & Nakasone) Hjortstam 1995

Crustomyces subabruptus (Bourdot & Galzin) Jülich 1978

Crustomyces tephroleucus (J. Song, Y.C. Dai & B.K. Cui) Yue Li, Nakasone & S.H. He 2022

 

Reference:

Gorjón, S.P. (2020). Genera of corticioid fungi: keys, nomenclature, and taxonomy. Studies in Fungi 5(1), 125–309.

 

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