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Amaurodon

Amaurodon J. Schröt. 1888, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 125–309 (2020).

Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, detachable, mostly arachnoid or pelliculose, continuous, hymenophore bluish when fresh, yellow-green when dry, smooth, hydnoid or poroid, concolorous with subiculum, sterile margin usually indeterminate or byssoid and paler than hymenophore. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphal cords absent or rarely present only in subiculum, subicular and subhymenial hyphae simple-septate or clamped, thin-walled, hyaline or sometimes partly bluish violet in KOH. Cystidia absent. Basidia utriform, not stalked, often sinuous, hyaline or partly violet in KOH, hyaline in distilled water, with 4-sterigmata. Basidiospores slightly globose or ellipsoid, smooth, verrucose and bi- or trifurcate, mostly violet in KOH, hyaline or yellowish in distilled water.

Index Fungorum Number: IF17054

Type Species: Amaurodon viridis (Alb. & Schwein.) J. Schröt. 1888

Species:

Amaurodon aeruginascens (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) Kõljalg & K.H. Larss. 1996

Amaurodon angulisporus Gardt & Yorou 2011

Amaurodon aquicoeruleus Agerer 2001

Amaurodon atrocyaneus (Wakef.) Kõljalg & K.H. Larss. 1996

Amaurodon caeruleocaseus Svantesson & T.W. May 2021

Amaurodon cyaneus (Wakef.) Kõljalg & K.H. Larss. 1996

Amaurodon hydnoides Kõljalg & Ryvarden 1997

Amaurodon mustialaensis (P. Karst.) Kõljalg & K.H. Larss. 1996

Amaurodon sumatranus Miettinen & Kõljalg 2007

Amaurodon viridis (Alb. & Schwein.) J. Schröt. 1888

Amaurodon wakefieldiae (Burds. & M.J. Larsen) Kõljalg & K.H. Larss. 1996

 

Reference:

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

 

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