Scutiger (fungus)

Scutiger
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Albatrellaceae
Genus: Scutiger
Paulet (1808)
Species

S. auriscalpium
S. brasiliensis
S. caeruleoporus
S. cryptopus
S. decurrens
S. ellisii
S. holocyaneus
S. oregonensis
S. subrubescens
S. subsquamosus
S. tuberosus

Scutiger is a genus of fungi in the family Albatrellaceae,[1] which includes S. oregonensis, the fungus tuber.[2][3]

General characteristics

Species in Scutiger are terrestrial, annual, and usually have simple, bright-colored, mesoporous hymenophores. The surface anoderm is variously decorated; the context is usually white, but rarely colored, and is fleshy to tough—rigid and fragile when dry. The Hymenium is porous, can be white or colored, and has thin-walled tubes; The spores are smooth, or rarely echinulate and hyaline.[4]

The surface of the pileus can be uneven, squamous, or rugose as in S. oregonensis or S. decurrens; or smooth and hispid-tomentose, as in S. hispidellus (synonymous with Jahnoporus hirtus, which was named for this quality.[5]

Species list

References

  1. Scutiger from zipcodezoo.com
  2. S. oregonensis at the Catalogue of Life, 2007
  3. Paulet, Traité Champ., Atlas 2: 122 (1793)
  4. William A. Murrill, Western Polypores, p.15, 1915
  5. S. hispidellus at GBIF
  6. David Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, p.560, 1986


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