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Scotoderma

Scotoderma Jülich 1974, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 273 (2020).

            Diagnosis:Basidiome resupinate, effused, membranaceous, hymenial surface smooth, brown tinged with olive-green, subiculum pale brown, margin tomentose. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae yellowish brown, thin- to slightly thick-walled, clamped, only in the subhymenial region some secondary septa lacking clamps, not incrusted with granules or crystals, about 2.5-5 μm in diam., not inflated, in some hyphae the cytoplasma turning brown in KOH. Cystidia lacking. Basidia large, broadly cylindrical to subclavate, somewhat stalked, basal part of the basidia occasionally produces a lateral swelling, about 100 μm long, 4-spored, yellowish, clamped at the base. Basidiospores large, c. 15 μm long, ellipsoid, yellowish o pale brown in water and weak KOH and darkening to blackish brown, finely roughened, somewhat thick-walled, non-amyloid, non-cyanophilous.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF18525

            Type Species: Scotoderma viride (Sacc.) Jülich 1974

Species

Scotoderma viride (Sacc.) Jülich 1974

Reference:

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

 

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