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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Hyphodontia subalutacea. Hyphodontia subalutacea

Synonyms

Tubulicrinis subalutaceus
Corticium subalutaceum

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic

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Caption: Hyphodontia subalutacea, BCP 1850
Owner: B.C. Paulus
Caption: Hyphodontia subalutacea, BCP 1850
Owner: B.C. Paulus
 

Article: Cunningham, G.H. (1963). The Thelephoraceae of Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 145: 359 p. Wellington:.
Description: Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, effused forming irregular areas to 12 x 4 cm; hymenial surface dingy white or pallid ochre, granular, farinose, not creviced; margin thinning out, arachnoid, white, adherent. Context white, 50-150 µm thick, basal layer of a few repent hyphae, intermediate layer of loosely arranged mainly ascending hyphae more freely branched in the subhymenium; generative hyphae 3-3.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, hyaline, naked, with clamp connections, Cystidia arising from the base of the intermediate layer, projecting to 65 µm, cylindrical or slightly expanded from bases to apices, 80-130 x 6-8 µm, walls naked, thickened basally to 2.5 µm, becoming thinner towards the often collapsed apices. Hymenial layer to 20 µm deep, a scanty palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and cystidia. Basidia subclavate, 10-18 x 4-5 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata erect, to 5 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, 8-12 x 3-4 µm. Spores cylindrical or allantoid, with rounded ends, 6-9 x 2-2.5 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µm thick; often adhering in fours.
Habitat: HABITAT: Effused on bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.
Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great Britain, North America, New Zealand.
Notes: Cystidia are expanded slightly from bases to apices, and walls become thickened progressively from apices to bases. In several collections they are arranged in clusters in small spines, so that the species might be sought under Odontia of the Hydnaceae; but in other particulars are identical with even collections listed. Spores are allantoid, some cylindrical, and in shape resemble those of T. gracillima.