Hyphoderma Wallr.
Index Fungorum number: IF 17823; MycoBank number: MB 17823
Notes – Hyphoderma is one of the largest genera of corticioid fungi, with 105 recognized species (Index Fungorum 2021). All species of Hyphoderma produce white rot and their main habitat is decaying wood of deciduous and coniferous trees. From a morphological point of view, the species included in this genus are characterized by their basidioma, resupinate and effused, with hymenophore smooth, tuberculate or hydnoid; a monomitic hyphal system and the hyphae with clamps; cystidia are frequent; basidia are suburniform to subcylindrical, with two or four sterigmata and basal clamps; spores are subglobose, ellipsoid, cylindrical to allantoid, thin-walled, smooth, with oily contents, and non-amyloid (Larsson 2007).
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