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Elmericium Spirin & V. Malysheva, 2025

Spirin, Viacheslav, Malysheva, Vera, Viner, Ilya, Alvarenga, Renato Lúcio Mendes, Grebenc, Tine, Gruhn, Gérald, Savchenko, Anton, Grootmyers, Django, Ryvarden, Leif, Vlasák, Josef, Larsson, Karl-Henrik & Nilsson, R. Henrik, 2025, Additions to the taxonomy of the Auriculariales (Basidiomycota) with pedunculate basidia, MycoKeys 120, pp. 339-392 : 339-392

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.120.155492

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16903261

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/496E9FBA-81DB-524A-9690-3734A15C5B62

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scientific name

 Elmericium Spirin & V. Malysheva
status

gen. nov.

Elmericium Spirin & V. Malysheva gen. nov.

Etymology.

Elmericium – derived from Elmerina, a phylogenetically close and anatomically similar genus, and Corticium, in reference to the crust-like basidiocarps.

Description.

Basidiocarps effused, smooth or nearly so, gelatinous, opalescent or opaque, light-coloured, margin sharply delimited. Hyphal structure monomitic, hyphae hyaline or brownish, clamped. Cystidia present, hyaline, thin-walled, clavate to somewhat tapering. Hyphidia abundant, richly branched, forming a continuous layer. Basidia four-celled, longitudinally septate, ovoid-ellipsoid to obconical, petiolate, embedded. Basidiospores smooth, thin-walled, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid. On dead wood of deciduous trees.

Type species.

Elmericium alabastrinum .

Specimens