Fungalpedia – Note 2387, Humidicuteae

 

Humidicuteae Padamsee & Lodge

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

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

The tribe Humidicuteae was introduced by Padamsee and Lodge (2014), based on the type genus Humidicutis (Singer) Singer. It is characterized by basidiomes brightly colored or greyish brown and without dopa-based pigments except for a few species of Neohygrocybe. Clamp connections are present at the base of the basidia and basidioles are often toruloid. The lamellar context is regular or subregular but not interwoven, the pileus context is inamyloid and some species have strong odours. It includes the genera Humidicutis, Gliophorus, Gloioxanthomyces, Neohygrocybe and Porpolomopsis (Lodge et al. 2014). 

Type genus: Humidicutis (Singer) Singer, Sydowia 12(1-6): 225 (1959) [1958].

 

References

Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC, Cantrell SA, Boertmann D, Kovalenko A, Vizzini A, Dentinger BTM, Kirk PM, Ainsworth AM, Moncalvo JM, Vilgalys R, Larsson E, Lücking R, Griffith GW, Smith ME, Norvell LL, Desjardin DE, Redhead SA, Ovrebo CL, Lickey EB, Ercole E, Hughes KW, Courtecuisse R, Young A, Binder M, Minnis AM, Lindner DL, Ortiz-Santana B, Haight J, Læssøe T, Baroni TJ, Geml J, Hattori T 2014 – Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). Fungal Divers 64:1–99.

 

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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