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Crustodontia

Crustodontia Hjortstam & Ryvarden 2005, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 187 (2020).

Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, widely effused, closely adnate, hard to brittle, hymenophore smooth, tuberculate to more distinctly odontioid, usually golden to apricot yellow, margin thinning out, usually yellowish, all part of the basidiome turning immediately reddish in KOH. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae with clamps, thin-walled to moderately thick-walled, hyaline, microbinding hyphae often difficult to detect, but mainly observed in the lower part of the subiculum. Cystidia often numerous, at first sphaeropedunculate then mainly ventricose to ventricose-rostrate, smooth or encrusted beneath the apex. Basidia shortly clavate, hyaline, with 4-sterigmata and with a basal clamp. Basidiospores narrowly ellipsoid to cylindrical, smooth, thin-walled, IKI–, CB–.

Index Fungorum Number: IF28985

Type Species: Crustodontia chrysocreas (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Hjortstam & Ryvarden 2005

Species:

Crustodontia chrysocreas (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Hjortstam & Ryvarden 2005

Crustodontia nigrodontea (C.L. Zhao & R.X. Huang) C.C. Chen & Sheng H. Wu 2021

Crustodontia rhododendri C.L. Zhao 2023

Crustodontia taiwanensis C.C. Chen & Sheng H. Wu 2021

Crustodontia tongxiniana (C.L. Zhao) C.C. Chen & Sheng H. Wu 2021

Crustodontia vietnamensis S.H. He, Yue Li & Nakasone 2025

 

Reference:

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

 

 

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