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Scopulodontia

Scopulodontia Hjortstam 1998, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 273 (2020).

       Diagnosis:Basidiome resupinate, closely adnate, dense, hard, stratose and probably perennial, hymenial surface grandinioid, becoming distinctly hydnoid. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae closely interwoven in a dense tissue, thin-walled, almost smooth, with clamps. Cystidia abundant, often clustered, thin-walled or with slightly thickened walls, encrusted. Basidia short-clavate, with 4-sterigmata and a basal clamp. Basidiospores small, ellipsoid, thin-walled, smooth, IKI–, CB–.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF28743

            Type Species: Scopulodontia loricata Hjortstam & P. Roberts 1998

Species

Scopulodontia latemarginata (Pat.) Nakasone 2003

Scopulodontia loricata Hjortstam & P. Roberts 1998

Scopulodontia webbii (Berk.) Nakasone 2009

 

Reference:

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

 

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