Piloderma

Piloderma
Piloderma bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Atheliales
Family: Atheliaceae
Genus: Piloderma
Jülich (1969)[1]
Type species
Piloderma bicolor
(Peck) Jülich (1969)
Species

P. bicolor
P. byssinum
P. lanatum
P. lapillicola
P. olivaceum
P. sphaerosporum

Piloderma is a genus of fungi in the family Atheliaceae. The distinguishing characteristics of Piloderma are the thick-walled (roughly 0.25 µm) basidiospores, the club-shaped basidia with stalk-like bases, and the clampless-septate hyphae.[2] The widespread genus contains six species.[3]

References

  1. Jülich W. (1969). "Über die Gattungen Piloderma gen. nov. und Subulicystidium Parm. (Corticiaceae, Aphyllophorales, Basidiomycetes)". Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft (in German). 81: 414–21.
  2. Maekawa N. (1993). "Taxonomic study of Japanese Corticiaceae (Aphyllophorales). I". Report of the Tottori Mycological Institute. 31: 1–149 (see p. 34).
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 538. ISBN 9780851998268.


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