Osteina

Osteina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Dacryobolaceae
Genus:	Osteina; Donk (1966)
Type species
	Osteina obducta; (Berk.) Donk (1966)

Osteina is a fungal genus in the family Dacryobolaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with Polyporus obductus as the type species.

Catalogue of Life lists 3 accepted species:

Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk
Osteina rhodophila (Spirin & Zmitr.) Bernicchia & Gorjón
Osteina undosa (Peck) Zmitr.

Description

Osteina is characterized by fruit bodies that are sessile to stipitate, which are bone hard when dry. It has a monomitic hyphal system, containing only generative hyphae with clamps. The spores are hyaline and thin-walled, and are inamyloid and acyanophilic. Osteina causes a brown rot in gymnosperm wood.

References

↑ Donk, M.A. (1966). "Osteina, a new genus of Polyporaceae". Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 44: 83–87.
↑ "Osteina | COL".
↑ Cui, Bio-Kai; Vlasák, Josef; Dai, You-Cheng (2014). "The phylogenetic position of Osteina obducta (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) based on samples from Northern Hemisphere" (PDF). Chiang Journal Mai of Science. 41 (4): 838–845.

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[Donk_1966-1] Donk, M.A. (1966). "Osteina, a new genus of Polyporaceae". Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 44: 83–87.

[2] "Osteina | COL".

[Cui_2014-3] Cui, Bio-Kai; Vlasák, Josef; Dai, You-Cheng (2014). "The phylogenetic position of Osteina obducta (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) based on samples from Northern Hemisphere" (PDF). Chiang Journal Mai of Science. 41 (4): 838–845.