Fungalpedia – Note 450, Hirticlavula

 

Hirticlavula J.H. Petersen & Læssøe

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi.

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Classification: Clavariaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi.

Hirticlavula (Clavariaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) was established by Petersen et al. (2014) to accommodate Hirticlavula elegans as a type species. The members of Hirticlavula are characterized by small, club-shaped, stipe hirsute basidiomata without sclerotium, monomitic hyphal system, non-inflated hyphae, cyanophilous, unbranched, septate, widening towards the obtuse apex hairs, basidia holobasidia without clamps, hyaline, and smooth spores with more or less cyanophilous. Only one species has been accepted from this genus and found on Quercus bark on the ground in a mature oak woodland in Norway (Petersen et al. 2014). No other species have been introduced to this genus, which remains monotypic.

Type species: Hirticlavula elegans J.H. Petersen & Læssøe

Other accepted species: This genus is monotypic.

 

Figure 1 – Morphology of Hirticlavula (JHP-95.117, JHP-13.364 holotype). a, b Basidiomata. c Hairs. d Basidia. e Spores. (a from JHP-13.364, be from JHP-95.117). Redrawn from Petersen et al. (2014).

 

Reference

Petersen JH, Davey ML, Læssøe TH. 2014 – Hirticlavula elegans, a new clavarioid fungus from Scandinavia. Karstenia 54(1), 1–8.

 

Entry by

Han L-S, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P.R. China.

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 2 December 2024