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Hyphodontiastra

Hyphodontiastra Hjortstam 1999, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 222 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, thin, loosely attached, hymenophore odontioid, aculei entire or fimbriate, fairly soft to fragile. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae thin-walled, with clamps. Gloeocystidia tubular, thin-walled, more or less sinuous, with oily contents, yellowish in KOH, brownish in sulphovanillin. Basidia tubular to narrowly clavate, basally slightly thick-walled, with four sterigmata and a basal clamp, basidia collapsing after spore discharge, the sterigmata turned inwards and difficult to discern. Basidiospores narrowly ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, IKI–, CB–.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF28393

            Type Species: Hyphodontiastra virgicola Hjortstam & Melo 1999

 

Species:

Hyphodontiastra virgicola Hjortstam & Melo 1999

 

Reference:

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

 

 

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