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Gloeodontia

Gloeodontia Boidin 1966, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 209 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, effused, adnate, hymenophore hydnoid, subiculum well developed. Hyphal system monomitic or dimitic, generative hyphae with clamps, thin-walled or with slight thickened walls, skeletal hyphae rarely branched, aseptate or with rare septa, thick-walled. Cystidia (pseudocystidia) arising in tooth trama, cylindrical, heavily encrusted with hyaline crystals. Gloeocystidia scattered in tooth trama, frequent in hymenium, blue to blue-black in sulfuric benzaldehyde. Halocystidia present in one species. Basidia cylindrical to urniform, with 4-sterigmata, with a basal clamp. Basidiospores hyaline to pale yellow under the microscope, thick-walled, asperulate, amyloid.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF17666

            Type Species: Gloeodontia discolor (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Boidin 1966

 

Species:

Gloeodontia americana Rajchenb. 1987

Gloeodontia columbiensis Burt ex Burds. & Lombard 1976

Gloeodontia discolor (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Boidin 1966

Gloeodontia eriobotryae Y.C. Dai & L.W. Zhou 2013

Gloeodontia halocystidiata Gorjón 2012

Gloeodontia pyramidata (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Hjortstam 1987

Gloeodontia subasperispora (Litsch.) E. Larss. & K.H. Larss. 2003

Gloeodontia xerophila Tellería, M. Dueñas, Rodr.-Armas, Beltrán-Tej. & Melo 2008

Gloeodontia yunnanensis C.L. Zhao 2020

 

Reference:

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

 

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