Osteina
Genus of fungi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of fungi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Osteina is a fungal genus in the family Dacryobolaceae.
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Genus: | Osteina Donk (1966) |
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Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk (1966) |
The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with Polyporus obductus as the type species.[1]
Catalogue of Life lists 3 accepted species:[2]
Osteina is characterized by fruit bodies that are sessile to stipitate, which are bone hard when dry. It has a monomitic hyphal system, containing only generative hyphae with clamps. The spores are hyaline and thin-walled, and are inamyloid and acyanophilic. Osteina causes a brown rot in gymnosperm wood.[3]
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