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Echinodontium

Echinodontium Ellis & Everh. 1900, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 198 (2020).

Diagnosis: Basidiome perennial, sessile, ungulate to conchate, or effuse-reflexed to entirely resupinate, context woody to leathery, brick red, olivaceous, or cream-colored, hymenophore distinctly aculeate to warted, sometimes almost smooth, inner tissue of teeth continuous with context. Hyphal system dimitic, with generative hyphae with clamps and secondary simple septa, thin-walled to solid and skeletal hyphae. Cystidia becoming thick-walled, dark red to hyaline, upper portion heavily encrusted, clavate to fusiform. Basidia clavate, with 4-sterigmate, and a basal clamp. Basidiospores hyaline, thick-walled, globose to ellipsoid, smooth to echinulate, strongly amyloid in Melzer’s reagent.

Index Fungorum Number: IF17540

Type Species: Echinodontium tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Ellis & Everh. 1900

Species:

Echinodontium ballouii (Banker) H.L. Gross 1964

Echinodontium japonicum Imazeki 1935

Echinodontium ryvardenii Bernicchia & Piga 1998

Echinodontium sulcatum (Burt) H.L. Gross 1964

Echinodontium taxodii (Lentz & H.H. McKay) H.L. Gross 1964

Echinodontium tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Ellis & Everh. 1900

Echinodontium tsugicola (Henn. & Shirai) Imazeki 1935

 

Reference:

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

 

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