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Licrostroma

Licrostroma P.A. Lemke 1964, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 233 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate or effuso-reflexed, confluent, margin determinate, hymenial surface continuous, cream-colored to alutaceous. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae simple-septate, walls thin to partially thickened, basal hyphae aseptate, thick-walled to semisolid, with tapering, antler-like branches (Bovista type), indextrinoid. Pseudocystidia thin to thick-walled elements of deep origin, flexuous-cylindric to subclavate, with rounded or tapering apices, not projecting beyond the level of the hymenium. Basidia scattered, large, cylindric. Basidiospores large, globoid to subgloboid, apiculate, thick-walled, smooth, non-amyloid in Melzer’s.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF17976

            Type Species: Licrostroma subgiganteum (Berk.) P.A. Lemke 1964

 

Species:

Licrostroma subgiganteum (Berk.) P.A. Lemke 1964

 

Reference:

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

 

 

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