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Phanerochaete

Phanerochaete P. Karst. 1889, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 253 (2020).

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate, closely attached to the substrate or commonly more or less detachable, ceraceous when fresh and wet, membranaceous when dried, whitish to yellowish, red-orange or brown, hymenophore smooth, tuberculate, hydnaceous or velutinous due to the projecting cystidia, margin fibrillose, fimbriate or with hyphal cords. Hyphal system monomitic, subicular hyphae mostly 5 μm wide or more, as a rule thick-walled, with simple septa or occasional to rare single, double or multiple clamps, straight and parallel with scattered ramifications while the subhymenial hyphae are thin-walled, richly branched and intertwined, without clamps, all hyphae smooth or encrusted to some degree. Cystidia numerous, cylindrical or more or less tapered, usually aseptate, always simple septate at the base, naked or strongly encrusted. Basidia narrowly clavate to cylindrical, hyaline, thin-walled, with a simple basal septum. Basidiospores usually narrowly ellipsoid, allantoid to subglobose, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled, usually with small apiculus, IKI–, CB–.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF18245

            Type Species: Phanerochaete alnea (Fr.) P. Karst. 1889

Species

Species can be found in Index Fungorum

 

Reference:

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

 

 

 

 

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