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Castellanea

Castellanea T.W. Henkel & M.E. Sm., in Smith et al., IMA Fungus 6(2): 310 (2015)

 

Etymology: The genus is named in honor of Dr. Michael A. Castellano, a world authority on sequestrate fungi.

Diagnosis: Distinguished from other Boletacaeae by a combination of the following characters: Basidiomata hypogeous to partially emergent, sequestrate, ovate, with a short stipe. Peridium orange-brown, unchanging, subglabrous, thin. Gleba brown, unchanging, loculate. Columella short, pad-like, with a single sterile vein. Basidiospores statismosporic, subfusiform, smooth, yellowish brown, often dextrinoid, pedicellate. Basidia subclavate. Cystidia and clamp connections absent.

Index Fungorum number: IF812361

 

Type species: Castellanea pakaraimophila T.W. Henkel & M.E. Sm. 2015, in Smith et al., IMA Fungus 6(2): 310 (2015)

Key reference:

Smith, M. E., Amses, K. R., Elliott, T. F., Obase, K., Aime, M. C., & Henkel, T. W. (2015). New sequestrate fungi from Guyana: Jimtrappea guyanensis gen. sp. nov., Castellanea pakaraimophila gen. sp. nov., and Costatisporus cyanescens gen. sp. nov. (Boletaceae, Boletales). IMA fungus, 6(2), 297–317. 

 

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