Xenasmatella Liu & Yuan 2022
Creators: name: Liu, Zhan-Bo
name: Yuan, Yuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Xenasmataceae
Xenasmatella

description: Key to the nine species of Xenasmatella known from China. The new species is in bold.
1. Tissues turning dark red or purplish in KOH .......................................................................................................................... X. vaga
1. Tissues unchanged in KOH. ...............................................................................................................................................................2
2. Rhizomorphs present ................................................................................................................................................... X. rhizomorpha
2. Rhizomorphs absent ...........................................................................................................................................................................3
3. Basidia often bifurcate at base.......................................................................................................................................... X. insperata
3. Basidia not bifurcate at base...............................................................................................................................................................4
4. Basidiomata less than 100 μm thick ..................................................................................................................................................5
4. Basidiomata more than 100 μm thick.................................................................................................................................................6
5. Basidiospores 3.3–4 μm wide; crystals present among hyphae .............................................................................. X. roseobubalina
5. Basidiospores 2.3–3.4 μm wide; crystals absent .................................................................................................................... X. tenuis
6. Generative hyphae slightly thick-walled ..................................................................................................................... X. xinpingensis
6. Generative hyphae thin-walled...........................................................................................................................................................7
7. Generative hyphae unbranched ........................................................................................................................... X. wuliangshanensis
7. Generative hyphae branched ..............................................................................................................................................................8
8. Generative hyphae 1.5–2.5 μm in diameter; basidiospores 4–5 × 3.5–4.5 μm ....................................................... X. ailaoshanensis
8. Generative hyphae 2.5–6 μm in diameter; basidiospores 3.3–4.4 × 2.8–4 μm ............................................................... X. gossypina
description: Published as part of Liu, Zhan-Bo & Yuan, Yuan, 2022, A new species of Xenasmatella (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from southern China, pp. 185-192 in Phytotaxa 556 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/6966033