Osteina
Osteina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Polyporales |
Family: | Fomitopsidaceae |
Genus: | Osteina Donk (1966) |
Type species | |
Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk (1966) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Osteina is a fungal genus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. It is a monotypic genus that contains the single species Osteina obducta. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with Polyporus obductus as the type species.[2]
Description
Osteina is characterized by fruit bodies that are sessile to stipitate, which are bone hard when dry. It has a monomitic hyphal system,containing only generative hyphae with clamps. The spores are hyaline and thin-walled, and are inamyloid and acyanophilic. Osteina causes a brown rot in gymnosperm wood.[3]
References
- ↑ "GSD Species Synonymy: Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk". Species Fungorum. Kew Mycology. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
- ↑ Donk, M.A. (1966). "Osteina, a new genus of Polyporaceae". Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 44: 83–87.
- ↑ Cui, Bio-Kai; Vlasák, Josef; Dai, You-Cheng (2014). "The phylogenetic position of Osteina obducta (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) based on samples from Northern Hemisphere" (PDF). Chiang Journal Mai of Science. 41 (4): 838–845.
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