Biology:Boidinia

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Boidinia
2013-02-17 Boidinia furfuracea (Bres.) Stalpers & Hjortstam 310625.jpg
Boidinia furfuracea
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Boidinia

Stalpers & Hjortstam (1982)
Type species
Boidinia furfuracea
(Bres.) Stalpers & Hjortstam (1982)
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Boidinia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus is widely distributed, and contains 10 species.[1] Boidinia was described in 1982 with the type species Boidinia furfuracea (formerly placed in Gloeocystidiellum). It is named in honor of French mycologist Jacques Boidin.[2]

N. Maekawa (1994) wrote: "The genus Boidinia is a satellite genus of Gloeocystidiellum and differs from the latter in forming loose texture in subiculum and globose, echinulate to verrucose basidiospores."[3]

Boidinia is probably not monophyletic and needs taxonomical redefinition.[4]

Species

  • B. aculeata
  • B. borbonica
  • B. cana
  • B. dendrophysata
  • B. donkii
  • B. furfuracea
  • B. granulata
  • B. lacticolor
  • B. luteola
  • B. macrospora
  • B. permixta
  • B. peroxydata
  • B. propinqua

References

Wikidata ☰ Q581606 entry