Agaricales » Pterulaceae

Merulicium

Merulicium J. Erikss. & Ryvarden 1976, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 239 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, thin, pellicular, hymenophore merulioid when fresh, more or less smooth when dry, margin fibrillose with thin rhizomorphs. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae with clamps, thin-walled, skeletal hyphae thick-walled, dextrinoid. Cystidia (leptocystidia), obclavate, with an obtuse or slightly widened apex, thin-walled. Basidia clavate, with 4-sterigmata and a basal clamp. Basidiospores fusiform, smooth, thin-walled, IKI–, CB–.

            Merulicium differs from other athelioid species in the dimitic hyphal system with dextrinoid skeletal hyphae (Eriksson & Ryvarden 1976). Phylogenetically, it belongs to the Pterulaceae in the Agaricales (Larsson 2007).

            Index Fungorum Number: IF18048

            Type Species: Merulicium fusisporum (Romell) J. Erikss. & Ryvarden 1976

 

Species:

Merulicium fusisporum (Romell) J. Erikss. & Ryvarden 1976

 

References:

Eriksson, J., Ryvarden, L. (1976). The Corticiaceae of North Europe. Vol. 4. Hyphodermella–Mycoacia. Fungiflora, Oslo, Norway.

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

Larsson, K.H. (2007). Re-thinking the classification of corticioid fungi. Mycological Research 111(9), 1040–1063.

 

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