Hyphodontia wrightii

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Macromorphology:

Micromorphology:

Spores:

4.5-5.5 x 2.5-3 µm, ellipsoid up to cylindrical, thin-walled, smooth, inamyloid, with one droplet each.

Basidia:

19-29 x 3-4 µm, slender suburniform with one to several constrictions and one basal clamp each, often basidial repetition.

Sterigmata:

Four, 3-4 µm long.

Cystidia:

Lagenocystidia, 25-51 µm long, up to 5 µm in diameter, young thin-walled, mature thick-walled (up to 1 µm) and then apical with neadle-like crystals cap, which is not soluble in 5% KOH solution. The lagenocystidia are produced in the hymenium, and are clustered in groups.

Clampes:

All primary septa with one clamp each.

Hyphae:

Hyphal system monomitic. Basal, subiculare and subhymenial hyphae 2-3 µm in diameter, thin-walled, basal hyphae loosely interwoven, in the subiculum densely interwoven. Hyphae in the center of the aculei 2-4 µm in diameter, slightly thick-walled (up to 0.5 µm). Hyphal branching by outgrowing of the clamps or subseptal outgrowing.

Aculei:

Lagenocystidia are clustered in groups and built together with generative, thin-walled hyphae the aculei.

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Biogeography:

Remarks:

Septo cystidia at least 3 to more celled
  Spores longer than 6 µm.........................H. propinqua
  Spores shorter than 6 µm........................H. alba
No septo cystidia , or at most two cells
  Capitate cystidia in the hymenium present
    Hymenium smooth up slightly uneven............H. alutaria
    Hymenium odontioid............................H. arguta
  No capitate cystidia in the hymenium present....H. wrightii

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