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Lenzitopsis

Lenzitopsis Malençon & Bertault 1963, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 230 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basiodiome annual, resupinate to effused-reflexed, submembranaceous, abhymenial surface tomentose to glabrous, hymenial surface irpicoid to irregularly poroid or irregularly lamellate, with brown to black brown. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae with thin to thickened walls, hyaline to brownish, with clamps. Cystidia absent. Basidia clavate to cylindrical, often somewhat constricted and narrowed towards the base, with 2-4 sterigmata, with a basal clamp. Basidiospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, yellowish to brown, warted, thin-walled, IKI–, CB–. It is associated to Juniperus causing a white rot.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF17933

            Type Species: Lenzitopsis oxycedri Malençon & Bertault 1963

 

Species:

Lenzitopsis daii L.W. Zhou & Kõljalg 2012

Lenzitopsis oxycedri Malençon & Bertault 1963

 

Reference:

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

 

 

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