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Gloeosoma

Gloeosoma Bres. 1920, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 211 (2020).

            Current name: Aleurodiscus Rabenh. ex J. Schröt.1888

            Diagnosis: Basidiome cupulate, attached by a contracted base, texture gelatinous when fresh, drying cartilaginous, hymenophore smooth, trama distinctly duplex with a lower dense layer and a subiculum of looser consistency. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae with clamps. Acanthophyses and hyphidia generally unbranched or with a few apical stout side branches. Basidia subclavate to clavate, with 4 large sterigmata. Basidiospores ovoid, echinulate, amyloid.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF17672

            Type Species: Gloeosoma vitellinum (Lév.) Bres. 1920

 

Species:

Gloeosoma capensis (Lloyd) Lloyd 1920

Gloeosoma decorticans Rajchenb., Pildain & C. Riquelme 2021

Gloeosoma mirabile (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Rajchenb., Pildain & C. Riquelme 2021

Gloeosoma vitellinum (Lév.) Bres. 1920

Gloeosoma zealandicum (Cooke & W. Phillips) Rajchenb., Pildain & C. Riquelme 2021

 

Reference:

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

 

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