Lopharia Kalchbr. & MacOwan, Grevillea 10: 58, 1881, emended

Liu, Shi-Liang, Nakasone, Karen K., Wu, Sheng-Hua, He, Shuang-Hui & Dai, Yu-Cheng, 2018, Taxonomy and phylogeny of Lopharia s. s., Dendrodontia, Dentocorticium and Fuscocerrena (Basidiomycota, Polyporales), MycoKeys 32, pp. 25-48 : 30

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scientific name

Lopharia Kalchbr. & MacOwan, Grevillea 10: 58, 1881, emended
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Lopharia Kalchbr. & MacOwan, Grevillea 10: 58, 1881, emended

Note.

Basidiocarps annual, effused, effused-reflexed or pileate, crustaceous, coriaceous or corky. Pilei tomentose to glabrous. Hymenophore surface smooth, tuberculate, odontoid, irpicoid to semiporoid, cream, greyish-brown to light brown. Hyphal system monomitic or dimitic; generative hyphae with clamp connections. Lamprocystidia metuloid, large, subulate, hyaline, distinctly thick-walled. Dendrohyphidia absent, simple hyphidia hyphoid, thin-walled, hyaline. Basidia clavate with 4 sterigmata, large (> 50 µm long). Basidiospores ellipsoid to cylindrical, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, negative in Melzer’s reagent, acyanophilous.

Type species.

Lopharia mirabilis (Berk. & Broome) Pat., Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 11: 14, 1895.

Key to species of Lopharia s.s.