Tulostoma
Creators: name: Hernández-Navarro, Eduardo
name: Cappello-García, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Agaricaceae
Tulostoma

description: Key to Tulostoma species with tubular stoma and verrucose exoperidium
1. Sphaerocist present in the endoperidium............................................................................................................................................2
- Sphaerocist absent in the endoperidium .............................................................................................................................................3
2. Sphaerocyst abundant in endoperidium; echinulate basidiospores 4.7–6.5 μm not subreticulated ............................. T. squamosum
- Sphaerocist rare in the endoperidum; sub reticulated basidiospores 4.6–6.1 μm................................................... T. subsquamosum
3. Uncolored endoperidium ....................................................................................................................................................................4
- Colored endoperidium ........................................................................................................................................................................7
4. Mycosclereids absent in the endoperidium ........................................................................................................................................5
- Mycosclereids present in the white to cinereous endoperidium; basidiospores (5.5) 6.8 –7.8 (8.5) μm, irregularly echinulate, with anastomosed columns.......................................................................................................................................................... T. dennisii
5. Exoperidium hyphal-verrucose, stipe slender 20–50 × 2–3 mm, basidiospores 4.0–6.0 μm ........................................ T. calcareum
- Stouter stipes with larger basidiospores .............................................................................................................................................6
6. Light brown verrucae, creamy to grayish white endoperidium, stipe 20–35 × 4–6 mm basidiospores 7–9 × 6.8 µm, echinulate ...... ................................................................................................................................................................................ T. loonbanglaense
- Reddish brownish verrucae conformed by pseudo parenchymatous cells up to 250 μm in length, basidiospores (5)5.73 × 6.25(8.7) μm ........................................................................................................................................................................... T. dominguenziae
7. Ovoid basidiospores 6–8 × 4–5 μm; exoperidium with dark brown verrucae, endoperidium cinnamon brown ................. T. matae
- Basidiospores globose ........................................................................................................................................................................8
8. Basidiospores subreticulated ..............................................................................................................................................................9
- Basidiospores not subreticulated ......................................................................................................................................................10
9. Spore-sac 5–11 mm diam, light brown verrucae, reddish brown endoperidium, stipe up to 30 mm, basidiospores 3.5–5 μm, sub reticulated ................................................................................................................................................................ T. subreticulatum
- Spore sac 9–13 mm diam, dark brown verrucae, brown endoperidium, stipe 35–50 × 2–2.5 mm, basidiospores 5.4–7.2 μm, sub reticulated ...................................................................................................................................................................... T. dumeticola
10. Basidiospores verrucose 4–4.8 (5.6) × (3.2) 4–4.8 μm, with low verrucae up to 0.8 μm; exoperidium sub verrucose, purplish gray endoperidium ................................................................................................................................................................... T. tropicale
- Basidiospores echinulate ..................................................................................................................................................................11
11. Light olive brown verrucae, pinkish endoperidium, echinate basidiospores (6)7.5–9.4(10.3) × (4)6.3–8.2(9.4) μm ..... T. ahmadii
11b. Dark brown verrucae, ochraceous to cinereous endoperidium, stipe 65 × 3mm, basidiospores 6–7.8 um with notable pyramidal spines .................................................................................................................................................................................. T. pusillum
description: Published as part of Hernández-Navarro, Eduardo & Cappello-García, Silvia, 2024, Tulostoma subreticulatum (Agaricomycetes, Agaricales): a new species of stalked puffball from Mexico, pp. 101-114 in Phytotaxa 653 (2) on pages 110-111, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.653.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13216913