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Cystidiodontia

Cystidiodontia Hjortstam 1983, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 188 -189 (2020).

Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, closely adnate, crustaceous, hymenophore grandinioid, odontioid or hydnoid. Hyphal system dimitic, skeletal hyphae dextrinoid or strongly dextrinoid, without clamps, subhymenial hyphae thin-walled or with slight wall thickening, with clamps. Gloeocystidia as a rule numerous, with yellowish contents, SA–. Dendrohyphidia in the hymenial layer lacking or present. Basidia subclavate, small to medium-sized, more or less constricted, with 4 sterigmata, and a basal clamp. Basidiospores moderately thick-walled, subglobose, fairly small, indextrinoid, inamyloid but with a slight cyanophilous reaction.

Index Fungorum Number: IF25796

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

 

Species:

Cystidiodontia artocreas (Berk. & M.A. Curtis ex Cooke) Hjortstam 1983

Cystidiodontia isabellina (Berk. & Broome) Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1985

Cystidiodontia laminifera (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Hjortstam 1990

 

Reference:

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

 

 

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