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Brunneocorticium

Brunneocorticium Sheng H. Wu 2007, in Wu et al., Mycologia, 99(2), 302-309 (2007).

Etymology: From brunneus (=brown) + corticium, referring to the presence of abundant brown skeletal hyphae in this genus.

Diagnosis: Basidiocarp resupinate. Hymenial surface white or whitish, smooth, cracked; margin brown. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae nodose-septate. Subiculum brown, due to presence of abundant yellowish-brown skeletal hyphae. Subicular generative hyphae colorless; subicular skeletal hyphae yellowish-brown or brown, occasionally branched, generally thick-walled. Hymenium 6 thickening, with dense texture. Leptocystidia present. Basidia subclavate with a median constriction. Basidiospores pyriform, bearing a minute apiculus, smooth, thin-walled, usually guttulate, colorless, IKI–, CB–.

Index Fungorum Number: IF505727

Type Species: Brunneocorticium pyriforme Sheng H. Wu 2007, in Wu et al., Mycologia, 99(2), 302-309 (2007).

 

Species:

Brunneocorticium bisporum (Burds. & Nakasone) Nakasone 2009,

Brunneocorticium corynecarpon (Kunze) R.A. Koch, Lodge, Nakasone & Aime 2018

Brunneocorticium pyriforme Sheng H. Wu 2007

 

Reference:

Wu, S. H., Wang, D. M., & Tschen, E. (2007). Brunneocorticium pyriforme, a new corticioid fungal genus and species belonging to the euagarics clade. Mycologia, 99(2), 302-309.

 

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