Antella niemelaei

Antella niemelaei is a species of poroid crust fungus in the family Steccherinaceae.

Antella niemelaei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Steccherinaceae
Genus:
Antella
Species:
A. niemelaei
Binomial name
Antella niemelaei
(Vampola & Vlasák) Miettinen (2016)
Synonyms[1]
  • Antrodiella niemelaei Vampola & Vlasák (2011)

Taxonomy

Antella niemelaei was formally described as new to science in 2011 as a member of Antrodiella. The specific epithet niemelaei honours Finnish mycologist Tuomo Niemelä, who made the first documented collections of this fungus in 1985.[2] In 2016, Otto Miettinen transferred the species to the new genus Antella, in which it is the type species.[1]

Description

Antella niemelaei is a European species that grows as a thin (about 0.5 mm thick), cream-coloured crust on dead hardwoods, especially on or around the dead fruit bodies of the polypore Hymenochaetopsis tabacina. It has small circular pores numbering about 4 per mm. The hyphal system is dimitic, with thin-walled generative hyphae having clamp connections, and thick-walled skeletal hyphae. Both hyphal types measure 2–4 μm wide. The spores produced by the fungus are thin-walled, hyaline, and ellipsoid, measuring 2.8–4 by 1.8–2.2 μm.[2]

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References
  1. Miettinen, Otto; Ryvarden, Leif (2016). "Polypore genera Antella, Austeria, Butyrea, Citripora, Metuloidea and Trulla (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales)". Annales Botanici Fennici. 53 (3–4): 157–172. doi:10.5735/085.053.0403.
  2. Vampola, Peter; Vlasák, josef. "Antrodiella niemelaei, a new polypore species related to Antrodiella americana" (PDF). Czech Mycology. 63 (2): 195–201.
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