Fuscoporia, Murrill, 1907

Chen, Qian, Luo, Hua-Dong, Cheng, Na & Zhang, De-Shun, 2023, Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of Fuscoporia (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from tropics, Phytotaxa 619 (3), pp. 219-231 : 227-228

A worldwide key to annual and effused-reflexed to pileate basidiocarps species of Fuscoporia .

- Mycelial setae abesent, chlamydospores absent.................................................................................................................................3

3. Hymenial setae mostly hooked or bifurcate apex...............................................................................................................................4

- Hymenial setae straight ......................................................................................................................................................................5

4. Hymenial setae mostly hooked, spores ellipsoid, 4–4.5 × 3–3.5 μm ................................................................................ F. atlantica

- Hymenial setae straight bifurcate apex, spores cylindric, 6–8.5 × 2–4 μm.......................................................................................... .................................................................................................................. F. bifurcata Baltazar, Trierv. -Per., Log.-Leite & Ryvarden

5. Basidiocarps effused-reflexed ............................................................................................................................................................6

- Basidiocarps distinctly pileate or substipitate ..................................................................................................................................14

6. Pores 9–11 per mm ............................................................................................................................................................. F. kenyana

- Pores <8 per mm................................................................................................................................................................................7

7. Pores distinctly daedaloid..................................................................... F. daedaliformis (J.E. Wright & Blumenf.) Y.C. Dai &F.Wu

- Pores angular, circular or rarely labyrinthine .....................................................................................................................................8

8. Cystidioles absent ........................................................................................ F. subcontigua (Cleland & Rodway) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu

- Cystidioles present..............................................................................................................................................................................9

9. Pores 2–4 per mm.............................................................................................................................................................................10

- Pores> 4 per mm..............................................................................................................................................................................11

10. Pores 2 per mm, spores 8–10 × 2.7–3.5 μm ..................................................................................... F. palomari Vlasák & Ryvarden

- Pores 2–4 per mm, spores 5.8–7×1.8–2.5 μm ....................................................................................... F. setifera (T. Hatt.) Y.C. Dai

11. Spores cylindric, length = 7.5–9 μm, Q=2.73–2.95 ................................................................ F. acutimarginata Y.C. Dai & Q. Chen

- Spores ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, length <5 μm, Q <1.65........................................................................................................12

12. Skeletal hyphae aseptate................................................................................................... F. gilva (Schwein.) T. Wagner & M. Fisch.

- Skeletal hyphae septate.....................................................................................................................................................................13

13. Pores 7–8 per mm, pore surface grayish brown ................................................................... F. chinensis Q. Chen, F. Wu & Y.C. Dai

- Pores 6 per mm, pore surface yellowish brown ..................................................................... F. chrysea (Lév.) Baltazar & Gibertoni

14. Pileal surface presence of concentrically sulcate or azonate............................................................................................................15

- Pileal surface indistinctly no sulcate or zonate.................................................................................................................................18

15. Pileal surface hirsute to rugose.........................................................................................................................................................16

- Pileal surface glabrous......................................................................................................................................................................17

16. Pileal surface hispid to rugose, indistinctly zonate, margin obtuse............................................................................... F. australiana

- Pileal surface hirsute, concentricaly sulcate and zonate, margin acute............................................................................ F. semiarida

17. Pores 9–10 per mm, skeletal hyphae septate................................................................................................................ F. callimorpha

- Pores 7–9 per mm, skeletal hyphae aseptate ..................................................................................................................... F. licnoides

18. Pores 3–5 per mm.......................................................................... F. formosana (T.T. Chang & W.N. Chou) T. Wagner & M. Fisch.

- Pores>6 per mm...............................................................................................................................................................................19

19. Pileal surface hispid or rugose..................................................................... F. sarcites (Fr.) Bittencourt, Vlasák & Drechsler-Santos

- Pileal surface nodulose.....................................................................................................................................................................20

20. Skeletal hyphae aseptate, type locality Malaysia................................................................................................................ F. leiomita

- Skeletal hyphae septate, type locality Austrilia................................................................................................................ F. plumeriae