Fungalpedia – Note 2392, Amylocorticium

 

Amylocorticium Pouzar

Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1

Classification: Amylocorticiaceae, Amylocorticiales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

Amylocorticium is characterized by resupinate basidiocarps with a smooth hymenophore, lack of cystidia, ellipsoid to allantoid basidiospores with amyloid reactions in Melzer’s reagent and causing a brown rot on wood (Pouzar 1959; Hjortstam 1980; Gilbertson and Lindsey 1989; Bernicchia and Gorjón 2010). At present, the genus includes about twelve species, but the status of several species needs to be further clarified. The few sequenced species including the type, A. subsulphureum (P. Karst.) Pouzar, formed a moderately supported lineage in Amylocorticiales (Binder et al. 2010; Song et al. 2016; Chikowski et al. 2017).

Type species: Amylocorticium subsulphureum (P. Karst.) Pouzar [as ‘subsulphurea’], Česká Mykol. 13(1): 11 (1959).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Amylocorticium.

 

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Figure 1 – Microscopic structures of Amylocorticium ellipsosporum (BJFC 023898, holotype). a Basidiospores. b Basidia and basidioles. c Hyphae from subiculum.

 

References

Bernicchia A, Gorjón SP 2010 – Corticiaceae s.l. Fungi Europaei. Vol 12. Ed Candusso, Italia.

Binder M, Larsson KH, Matheny PB, Hibbett DS 2010 – Amylocorticiales ord. nov. and Jaapiales ord. nov.: early diverging clades of Agaricomycetidae dominated by corticioid forms. Mycologia 102:865–880.

Chikowski RS, Larsson KH, Gibertoni TB 2017 – Ceraceomyces atlanticus (Amylocorticiales, Basidiomycota), a new species from the Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil. Phytotaxa 296:73–80.

Gilbertson RL, Lindsey JP 1989 – North American species of Amylocorticium (Aphyllophorales, Corticiaceae), a genus of brown rot fungi. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 49:138–146.

Hjortstam K 1980 – Notes on Corticiaceae (Basidiomycetes) VII. A synopsis of the genus Amylocorticium Pouz. Mycotaxon 11:430–434.

Pouzar Z 1959 – New genera of higher fungi III. Ceská Mykologie 13:10–19.

Song J, Liu XY, Wang M, Cui BK 2016 – Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Anomoloma (Amylocorticiales, Basidiomycota). Mycol Prog 15:1–8.

 

Entry by

Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

 

Published online 5 May 2026

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