Fungalpedia – Note 2388, Humidicutis
Humidicutis (Singer) Singer
Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Hygrophoraceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi
Pileus convex, convex-umbonate or conic, margin rarely and not deeply splitting; surface subhygrophanous, moist, rarely viscid, colors usually bright; lamellae thick, sinuate or broadly adnate, often with a decurrent tooth; odor absent or disagreeable; carotenoid pigments usually present, encrusting pigments may also be present on cuticular hyphae, not soluble in alkaline solutions; pileipellis hyphae parallel, prostrate, cylindric; basidia usually 5 or more times longer than the spore length; basidiospores hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid, not metachromatic, ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, not constricted; lamellar trama subregular or regular, of hyphae <150 μm long, rarely tapered, with right-angled septa; clamp connections absent in context and pellis, but toruloid clamps present at the base of the basidia and/or basidioles (Lodge et al. 2014).
Type species: Humidicutis brunneovinacea R. Garibay-Orijel.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Humidicutis.
Figure 1 – Humidicutis brunneovinacea (MEXU 28225, holotype). a Basidiomes in its habitat. b Basidiomes development. c Hymenophoral trama. d Hymenia. e Spores. f Basidiole with bifurcated base. g Basidia arising from same toruloid clamp connection. Scale bars: c = 40 µm, d, f, g = 20 µm, e = 5 µm
References
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