Corticiales » Corticiales genera incertae sedis

Melzerodontia

Melzerodontia Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1980, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 238 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, effuse, adnate, hymenophore grandinioid to distinctly odontioid with rather small aculei. Hyphal system monomitic, all hyphae without clamps, basal hyphae somewhat thick-walled, with a slight dextrinoid reaction, subhymenial hyphae less thick-walled, usually strongly dextrinoid and cyanophilous. Cystidia absent, paraphysoid hyphae or dendrohyphidia may be present. Basidia clavate, with 4-sterigmate, basally thick-walled, dextrinoid, and cyanophilous. Basidiospores subcylindrical, smooth, thin-walled, IKI–, CB–.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF18040

            Type Species: Melzerodontia aculeata Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1980

 

Species:

Melzerodontia aculeata Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1980

Melzerodontia rasilis Hjortstam & Ryvarden 1997

Melzerodontia udamentiens P. Roberts 2000

 

Reference:

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

 

 

 

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