Climacocystis

Climacocystis Kotl. & Pouzar 1958, in Liu et al., Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1115761 (2023).

Diagnosis: Basidiomata annual, pileate, sessile to laterally substipitate, usually imbricate, soft and watery when fresh, corky to hard corky and light in weight when dry. Pileus applanate, fan-shaped to dimidiate. Pileal surface white to cream, tomentose to hirsute when fresh, becoming cream, yellowish-brown to orange-brown, glabrous or tufted with short stiff hairs when dry, often radially furrowed, azonate; margin acute. Pore surface white to cream when fresh, becoming cream, clay-buff to orange-brown when dry; pores angular or irregular; dissepiments thin, entire to lacerate. Context white to clay-buff, corky to hard corky. Tubes white, clay-buff to orange-brown, corky to hard corky. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with clamp connections, IKI–, CB–; tissues unchanged in KOH. Cystidia present, ventricose, colorless, thin- to thick-walled, smooth or apically encrusted. Basidia clavate, colorless, thin-walled. Basidiospores ellipsoid to subcylindrical, colorless, thin-walled, smooth, IKI–, CB–. Causing a white rot.

Index Fungorum Number: IF17325

Type species: Climacocystis borealis (Fr.) Kotl. & Pouzar 1958

Species:

Climacocystis borealis (Fr.) Kotl. & Pouzar 1958

Climacocystis borealis var. borealis (Fr.) Kotl. & Pouzar 1958

Climacocystis borealis var. rohrbacheri Kotl. & Pouzar 1958

Climacocystis borealis var. spathulata (Weinm. ex Fr.) Kotl. & Pouzar 1958

Climacocystis montana B.K. Cui & J. Song 2014

Climacocystis temperata S. Hussain, M. Nisar & Y.W. Lim 2024