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Amphistereum schrenkii

Amphistereum schrenkii (Burt) Spirin & Malysheva, in Fungal Biology 121 (8): 696 (2017)

 

Diagnosis: Basidiocarps annual, cupulate-orbicular, leathery, up to 0.3 cm in widest dimension and up to 0.5 mm thick. Margin elevated, sometimes involute; abhymenial surface pale brown, azonate, densely hirsute. Hymenophore soft ceraceous, smooth, white to pale grey

Basidiospores broadly cylindrical, slightly curved, (11.0–) 11.8–14.3 (–15.0) × (5.9–) 6.0–7.1 (–7.2) µm (n = 30/1), L = 13.12, W = 6.51, Q = 2.02. Basidia ellipsoid-ovoid, four–celled, (15.2–) 17.8–31.2 (–35.3) × (9.8–) 10.0–13.5 (–14.0) µm (n = 20/1). Cystidia rather rare, narrowly clavate, some slightly tapering to the apex or indistinctly constricted, 31–49 × 5–7 µm. Hyphal structure dimitic; hyphae with clamp connections. Hyphae of abhymenial surface pale brown, thick walled, occasionally clamped, loosely arranged, subparallel, 4–6 µm in diam., CB (+), with accidental crystals. Skeletal hyphae pale to dark brown, very thick-walled, arranged in parallel bundles, often densely glued together, present in the uppermost part of context and producing more or less solid layer (visible under × 50 magnification as a dark brown line), 2–4 µm in diam., CB (+). Generative hyphae hyaline, with distinct walls, dominating in upper trama, interwoven and partly glued together, (2.2–) 2.4–4.2 (–5.2) µm in diam. (n = 20/1), CB (+), sometimes encrusted by scattered angular crystals. Subhymenial hyphae hyaline, thin- or slightly thick-walled, short-celled, vertically arranged, 2–4 µm in diam., occasionally inflated up to 6 µm. Hyphidia abundant, covering hymenial surface, richly branched, 2–3 µm in diam. at the apex.

Index Fungorum number: IF818019

Notes: Amphistereum schrenkii produces small-sized, cup-like basidiocarps with a pale-coloured hymenial surface. Its distribution is limited to arid regions of the US South-West (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), where it occurs mostly on dead branches of mesquite (Prosopis spp.) (Burt 1915; Gilbertson et al. 1976 – as ‘Exidiopsis leucophaea’, Wells & Raitviir 1980).

 

Figure 1. Microscopic structures of A. schrenkii (Burdsall 8476): (A) hymenium; (B) basidia; (C) cystidia; (D) skeletal hyphae; (E) hyphae of abhymenial surface. Scale bar = 10 µm

 

Figure 2. Basidiocarps of A. schrenkii (Burdsall 8476).

 

Figure 3. Basidiospores of A. schrenkii (Burdsall 8476).

Figure 4. Combined phylogenetic nrITS D nrLSU topology from Maximum likelihood analysis showing main lineages within Auriculariales. The collection number (voucher or isolate) is given for each specimen. Support values (PP values in BI/BS values in ML/BS values in MP) are given above the branches. Scale bar shows expected changes per site.

 

References:

Burt, E. A. (1915). The Thelephoraceae of North America. V. Tremellodendron, Eichleriella, and Sebacina. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2(4), 731-770.

Gilbertson, R. L., Burdsall Jr, H. H., & Canfield, E. R. (1976). Fungi that decay mesquite in southern Arizona. Mycotaxon, 3(3), 487-551.

Malysheva V, Spirin V. (2017). Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Auriculariales (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) with stereoid basidiocarps. Fungal Biology. 121(8): 689-715

Wells, K., & Raitviir, A. (1980). The species of Eichleriella (Tremellaceae) of the USSR. Mycologia, 72(3), 564-577.

 

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