Polyporales » Irpicaceae

Flavodon

Flavodon Ryvarden 1973, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 204 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome annual, resupinate to pileate, reddish to brown with KOH, pileus adpressed tomentose, yellowish to ochraceous-grey, hymenophore first poroid, then hydnoid to irpicoid, context bright sulphurous yellow (colour fades to cinnamon or ochraceous in old or herbarium specimens). Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae with simple septa, skeletal hyphae thick-walled and partly bent into the hymenium as smooth or encrusted cystidia, spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline and non-amyloid. On deciduous wood, Monotypic genus.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF17604

            Type Species: Flavodon flavus (Klotzsch) Ryvarden 1973

 

Species:

Flavodon ambrosius D.R. Simmons, You Li, C.C. Bateman & J. Hulcr 2016

Flavodon cervinogilvus (Jungh.) Corner 1987

Flavodon flavus (Klotzsch) Ryvarden 1973

Flavodon subulatus (Ryvarden) F. Wu, Jia J. Chen & Y.C. Dai 2017

Flavodontia rosea C.L. Zhao 2022

 

Reference:

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

 

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