Deflexula

Deflexula is a genus of tooth fungi in the family Pterulaceae.

Deflexula
Deflexula subsimplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Pterulaceae
Genus:
Deflexula

Corner (1950)
Type species
Deflexula fascicularis
(Bres. & Pat.) Corner (1950)

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by British botanist E.J.H. Corner in his 1950 work "Clavaria and Allied Genera". The type species, Deflexula fascicularis, was originally described in 1901 as Pterula fascicularis by Giacomo Bresadola and Narcisse Théophile Patouillard.[1]

Description

The fruit bodies are small, up to 25 mm long. Spores are white in deposit, smooth, spherical to ellipsoidal, with large oil droplets (guttules). The basidia are large and four-spored; cystidia are absent. The hyphal system is dimitic, and the skeletal hyphae have clamp connections.[1]

Species
  • Deflexula fascicularis
  • Deflexula lilaceobrunnea
  • Deflexula major
  • Deflexula mangiformis
  • Deflexula microspora
  • Deflexula pacifica
  • Deflexula pennata
  • Deflexula sprucei
  • Deflexula subsimplex
  • Deflexula sulcispora
  • Deflexula ulmi

See also

References
  1. Corner, E.J.H. (1950). A monograph of Clavaria and allied genera. Oxford University Press. p. 695.


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