Rhomboidia C.L. Zhao, gen. nov.
Index Fungorum number: MB 833318; Facesoffungi number: FoF
Differs from Nigroporus and Trullella by its stipitate to substipitate basidiomata, its orange-brown to reddish brown surface, and its monomitic hyphal system in both context and trama.
Type species: Rhomboidia wuliangshanensis C.L. Zhao
Etymology: Rhomboidia (Lat.): referring to the rhomboid pileus of the basidiocarp with the poroid hymenophore.
Basidiomata annual, stipitate. Pileus rhomboid, arising from a multiple branched stipe. Pores angular, small, dissepiments thin, entire. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae thick-walled bearing clamp connections, IKI–, CB–; tissues unchanged in KOH. Cystidia absent, fusoid cystidioles numerous; hyphal ends numerous. Basidia barrel-shaped to clavate. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, IKI–, CB–.
Type of rot: white rot.
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