Lentaria Corner. Monograph of Clavaria and allied Genera, (Annals of Botany Memoirs No. 1): 437, 696 (1950).
Notes – Initially, Lentaria included clavarioid species, simple or branched, with smooth, hyaline spores, ellipsoid to allantoid and phycophile or saprotrophic habitat. Phycophile species were later segregated in the genus Multiclavula (Petersen 1967). Nowadays, Lentaria species are recognized for developing coralloid basidiocarps and being saprotrophic, with humicolous or lignicolous habits. The basidiocarps emerge from a subiculum, superficial or immersed on the substrate. The spores are hyaline, ellipsoid to sigmoid, smooth and thin-walled and the hyphal system is monomitic. However, it has been hypothesized that the genus is polyphyletic (Binder et al. 2010; Liu et al. 2017b). Twenty-three species have been described, of which five are tropical.
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