Scytinopogon Lin & Wang & Hsieh 2022
Creators: name: Lin, Wan-Rou
name: Wang, Pi-Han
name: Hsieh, Sung-Yuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Trechisporales
Hydnodontaceae
Scytinopogon

description: Key to Scytinopogon species (update from Furtado et al. 2021)
1. Hymenophore becoming more or less minutely papillate or hydnoid .................................................................................. S. scaber
1. Hymenophore smooth ........................................................................................................................................................................2
2. Basidiomes light brown to reddish brown when fresh .......................................................................................................................3
2. Basidiomes pure white to pale yellow when fresh ............................................................................................................................ 4
3. Basidiomes slender with flattened branches, context dry; context hyphae inflated to 6.0−23 µm diam ........................... S. robustus
3. Basidiomes robust with cylindric to flattened and narrowly spathulate branches, context viscid; context hyphae 3.5–8 µm diam ... ............................................................................................................................................................................................. S. foetidus
4. Basidiomes subfragile, reddish brown when dry; basal mycelium absent........................................................................................ 5
4. Basidiomes more robust, pale yellow when dry; basal mycelium present.........................................................................................6
5. Basidiospores subglobose; cystidial hairs on stipitipellis ...................................................................................... S. caulocystidiatus
5. Basidiospores ellipsoid; no cystidial hairs on stipitipellis................................................................................................ S. dealbatus
6. Basal mycelium abundant and very compact crystals present, insoluble in KOH; basidiospores nodulose, finely verrucose............ ......................................................................................................................................................................................... S. pallescens
6. Basal mycelium scant and loosely attached, crystals absent; basidiospores truly echinulate........................................................... 7
7. 1−2-spored or 4-spored basidium................................................................................................................................... S. chartaceus
7. 4-spored basidium .................................................................................................................................................. S. cryptomerioides
description: Published as part of Lin, Wan-Rou, Wang, Pi-Han & Hsieh, Sung-Yuan, 2022, Scytinopogon cryptomerioides (Hydnodontaceae), a new species from Taiwan, pp. 73-83 in Phytotaxa 552 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.552.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6673263