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Entomocorticium

Entomocorticium H.S. Whitney, Bandoni & Oberw. 1987, in Whitney et al., Canadian Journal of Botany, 65, 95-102 (1987).

            Etymology: Ento, insect; corticium, name of a related fungus.

            Diagnosis: Basidiocarp subcortical, resupinate, lining the walls of larval galleries and pupal chambers of bark beetles, membranaceous, the margin byssoid and with inconspicuous radiating strands. Hymenial surface even, white to buff. Hyphal system monomitic. Hyphae hyaline, with clamps, remaining distinct. Hymenium at first with abundant smooth or incrusted cystidia, later thickening and with few or no cystidia. Basidia suburniform to irregularly clavate, (1) -4 - (6)-spored. Basidiospores borne symmetrically on short, broad sterigmata, not abstricted, subcylindric to ellipsoid or subglobose, truncate at the attachment, rounded distally, hyaline, the walls smooth, thick, inamyloid, acyanophilous.

Index Fungorum Number: IF23076

Type species: Entomocorticium dendroctoni H.S. Whitney 1987, in Whitney et al., Canadian Journal of Botany, 65, 95-102 (1987).

Species:

Entomocorticium belizense J.P.M. Araújo, You Li & J. Hulcr 2021

Entomocorticium cobbii T.C. Harr., McNew & Batzer 2021

Entomocorticium dendroctoni H.S. Whitney 1987

Entomocorticium fibulatum J.P.M. Araújo, You Li & J. Hulcr 2021

Entomocorticium kirisitsii McNew, Batzer & T.C. Harr. 2021

Entomocorticium macrovesiculatum J.P.M. Araújo, You Li, Six & J. Hulcr 2021

Entomocorticium oberwinkleri Batzer, McNew & T.C. Harr. 2021

Entomocorticium parmeteri T.C. Harr., McNew & Batzer 2021

Entomocorticium perryae J.P.M. Araújo, You Li, Six & J. Hulcr 2021

Entomocorticium portiae T.C. Harr., McNew & Batzer 2021

Entomocorticium sullivanii McNew, Batzer & T.C. Harr. 2021

Entomocorticium whitneyi Batzer, McNew & T.C. Harr. 2021

 

 

Reference:

Whitney, H. S., Bandoni, R. J., & Oberwinkler, F. (1987). Entomocorticium dendroctoni gen. et sp. nov.(Basidiomycotina), a possible nutritional symbiote of the mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Botany, 65, 95-102.

 

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