Skeletocutis diluta

Skeletocutis diluta is a species of poroid crust fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It was first described by Mario Rajchenberg in 1983 as a variety of Skeletocutis nivea.[1] Rajchenberg and Alex David promoted the taxon to independent species status in 1992.[2] The type specimen was collected in Puerto Esperanza, Misiones (Argentina), where it was found growing on Pinus taeda logs in a subtropical forest.[1] It has since been found in Gabon. Skeletocutis diluta has effused-reflexed fruit bodies, meaning they are crust-like with a margin that is extended and bent backwards. It has small allantoid (sausage-shaped) spores measuring 3.1–3.5 by 0.5–0.8 μm. It features a dimitic hyphal system (containing both generative and skeletal hyphae), but the skeletal hyphae dissolve in solution of potassium hydroxide.[2]

Skeletocutis diluta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Polyporaceae
Genus:
Skeletocutis
Species:
S. diluta
Binomial name
Skeletocutis diluta
(Rajchenb.) A.David & Rajchenb. (1992)
Synonyms
  • Skeletocutis nivea var. diluta Rajchenb. (1983)

References
  1. Rajchenberg, Mario (1983). "New South American resupinate polypores". Mycotaxon. 16: 500–506.
  2. David, Alix; Rajchenberg , Mario (1992). "West African polypores: new species and combinations". Mycotaxon. 45: 131–148.


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