Trechispora is a genus of fungi in the family Hydnodontaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are variously corticioid (effused, patch-forming) or clavarioid (branched and coral-like) with spore-bearing surfaces that are variously smooth to hydnoid or poroid. The genus occurs worldwide, though individual species may be localized. Around 50 species have been described to date.[1]
| Trechispora | |
|---|---|
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| Trechispora stevensonii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Trechisporales |
| Family: | Hydnodontaceae |
| Genus: | Trechispora P.Karst. (1890) |
| Type species | |
| Trechispora onusta P.Karst. (1890) | |
| Synonyms | |
Taxonomy
Trechispora was introduced in 1890 by Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten to describe a fragile, effused fungus with a poroid hymenium and small, spiny basidiospores. His type and only species, T. onusta, is now known to be a synonym of the earlier name Polyporus hymenocystis (= Trechispora hymenocystis).[1] Additional species with a similar micromorphology have subsequently been added to the genus.
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The genus Scytinopogon was introduced by Rolf Singer in 1945 to accommodate tropical and subtropical fungi with clavarioid basidiocarps having flattened branches and producing small, spiny to warty basidiospores.[2] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has however shown that Scytinopogon species are nested within Trechispora [3][1] (which they resemble microscopically) and are consequently not a separate genus but are simply Trechispora species with clavarioid basidiocarps.[1]
Species
- Trechispora alnicola
- Trechispora amianthina
- Trechispora antipus
- Trechispora araneosa
- Trechispora bispora
- Trechispora brasiliensis
- Trechispora brassicicola
- Trechispora byssinella
- Trechispora canariensis
- Trechispora candidissima
- Trechispora caucasica
- Trechispora chartacea
- Trechispora clancularis
- Trechispora cohaerens
- Trechispora copiosa
- Trechispora dimitica
- Trechispora donkii
- Trechispora elongata
- Trechispora farinacea
- Trechispora fastidiosa
- Trechispora gelatinosa
- Trechispora gillesii
- Trechispora gloeospora
- Trechispora granulifera
- Trechispora havencampii
- Trechispora hymenocystis
- Trechispora incisa
- Trechispora invisitata
- Trechispora kavinioides
- Trechispora laevis
- Trechispora microspora
- Trechispora minima
- Trechispora minispora
- Trechispora minuta
- Trechispora mollusca
- Trechispora mutabilis
- Trechispora nivea
- Trechispora pallescens
- Trechispora papillosa
- Trechispora petrophila
- Trechispora polygonospora
- Trechispora praefocata
- Trechispora regularis
- Trechispora rigida
- Trechispora sphaerocystis
- Trechispora sphaerospora
- Trechispora stellulata
- Trechispora stevensonii
- Trechispora subhelvetica
- Trechispora subsphaerospora
- Trechispora tenuicula
- Trechispora termitophila
- Trechispora trigonospora
- Trechispora variseptata
- Trechispora verruculosa