Mycoleptodonoides

Mycoleptodonoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Meruliaceae
Genus:	Mycoleptodonoides M.I.Nikol. (1952)
Type species
Mycoleptodonoides vassiljevae M.I.Nikol. (1952)
Species
M. aitchisonii M. pergamenea M. sharmae M. tropicalis M. vassiljevae

Mycoleptodonoides is a genus of tooth fungi in the family Meruliaceae. The genus was circumscribed by M.I. Nikolajeva in 1952 with M. vassiljevae, described from Ussuri, Russia, as the type species.[1] This fungus, known only from the type locality and northern China, is little known. The more widely distributed M. aitchisonii is found in habitats ranging from subtropical to boreal.[2] The generic name combines the name Mycoleptodon and the Greek root -oides, meaning "resembling".[3]

Description

Mycoleptodonoides species have fruitbodies with caps with "teeth" on the underside. It has a monomitic hyphal system with generative hyphae containing clamp connections. Spores are small and smooth, and non-reactive with Melzer's reagent (non-amyloid).[4]

Species

• Mycoleptodonoides aitchisonii (Berk.) Maas Geest. (1961)[5] – India
• Mycoleptodonoides pergamenea (Yasuda) Aoshima & H.Furuk. (1966)[6] – Japan
• Mycoleptodonoides sharmae K.Das, Stalpers & Stielow (2013)[2] – India
• Mycoleptodonoides tropicalis H.S.Yuan & Y.C.Dai (2009)[4] – China
• Mycoleptodonoides vassiljevae Nikol. (1952)[1] – Russia; northern China

References

1. Nikolajeva, T.L. (1952). "Novyi rod ezhovikvykh (sem. Hydnaceae) gribov" [A new genus of hydnaceous fungi]. Botanicheskie Materialy Otdela Sporovykh Rastenii. Botanichescheskii Institut Akademia Nauk SSR. 8: 117–121.
2. Das, K.; Stalpers, J.A.; Stielow, J.B. (2014). "Two new species of hydnoid-fungi from India". IMA Fungus. 4 (2): 359–369. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.15. PMC 3905948. PMID 24563842.
3. Donk, M.A. (1963). "The generic names proposed for Hymenomycetes. XIII: Additions and corrections to parts I-IX, XII (conclusion)". Taxon. 12 (4): 153–168. doi:10.2307/1216184. JSTOR 1216184.
4. Yuan, H.S.; Dai, Y.C. (2009). "Hydnaceous fungi of China 4. Mycoleptodonoides tropicalis sp. nov., and a key to the species in China". Mycotaxon. 110: 233–238. doi:10.5248/110.233.
5. Maas Geesteranus, R.A. (1961). "A Hydnum from Kashmir". Persoonia. 1 (4): 409–413.
6. Aoshima, K.; Furukawa, H. (1966). "日本菌学会会報" [Some Japanese species of hydnaceous fungi growing on wood]. Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan. 7: 133–143.