Fungalpedia – Note 2414, Hydnodontaceae

 

Hydnodontaceae Jülich 

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Trechisporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

Hydnodontaceae was proposed by Jülich (1981) and includes a variety of fruitbody shapes: coralloid, hydnoid, stipitate and resupinate. Currently accepted genera in the family are: Brevicellicium, Dextrinocystis, Dextrinodontia, Hydnodon (Type), Litschauerella, Luellia, Porpomyces, Scytinopogon, Sistotremastrum, Sphaerobasidium, Subulicystidium, Trechispora and Tubulicium (He et al. 2019).

Type genus: Hydnodon Banker, Mycologia 5(6): 297 (1913).

 

References

He MQ, Zhao RL, Hyde KD, Begerow D, Kemler M, Yurkov A, McKenzie EHC, Raspé O, Kakishima M, Sánchez-Ramírez S, Vellinga EC, Halling R, Papp V, Zmitrovich IV, Buyck B, Ertz D, Wijayawardene NN, Cui BK, Schoutteten N, Liu XZ, Li TH, Yao YJ, Zhu XY, Liu AQ, Li GJ, Zhang MZ, Ling ZL, Cao B, Antonín V, Boekhout T, da Silva BDB, Crop ED, Decock C, Dima B, Dutta AK, Fell JW, Geml J, Ghobad-Nejhad M, Giachini AJ, Gibertoni TB, Gorjón SP, Haelewaters D, He SH, Hodkinson BP, Horak E, Hoshino T, Justo A, Lim YW, Menolli JN, Mešić A, Moncalvo JM, Mueller GM, Nagy LG, Nilsson RH, Noordeloos M, Nuytinck J, Orihara T, Ratchadawan C, Rajchenberg M, Silva-Filho AGS, Sulzbacher MA, Tkalčec Z, Valenzuela R, Verbeken A, Vizzini A, Wartchow F, Wei TZ, Weiß M, Zhao CL, Kirk PM 2019 – Notes, outline and divergence times of Basidiomycota. Fungal Divers 99:105–367.

Jülich W 1981 – Higher taxa of Basidiomycetes. Bibl Mycol 85:1–485.

 

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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