Fungalpedia – Note 2415, Scytinopogon
Scytinopogon Singer
Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.
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Classification: Hydnodontaceae, Trechisporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi
The genus Scytinopogon was proposed by Singer in 1945. The clavarioid fruitbodies may be cream, white, alutaceous, tan, tinged pink or purple, and have flat branches in one plane, dilatating before branching, polychotomous in the first divisions and dichotomous near to the tips, also it can be dichotomous in slim specimens. This genus includes 10 species (http://www.indexfungorum.org/).
Type species: Scytinopogon pallescens (Bres.) Singer, Lloydia 8(3): 139 (1945).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Scytinopogon.
Figure 1 – Scytinopogon minisporus. a Fresh fruitbody (FCME 26015). b Dry fruitbody (MEXU 28300, holotype). c Basidiospores with verrucose ornamentation, showing the plage without ornamentation (MEXU 28300, holotype). d Ornamentation of spores (MEXU 28301). e Immature basidiospores attached to a tetrasterigmata basidia. f Clavate cystidia with crystals on the tip. Scale bars: b = 5 mm, c–e = 1.5 µm, f = 4 µm
References
Singer R 1945 – New genera of fungi. Lloydia 8:139–144.
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