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Serpula

Serpula (Pers.) Gray 1821, in Gorjón, Studies in Fungi 5(1), 275 (2020).

            Basionym: Merulius sect. Serpula Pers. 1801

            Diagnosis: Basidiome resupinate to effuse-reflexed, or pileate, membranaceous, soft, easily detachable, hymenophore merulioid to poroid, orange to brownish or with olivaceous tints, margin rhizomorphic. Hyphal system dimitic, hyphae polymorphic, generative hyphae with clamps, skeletoid hyphae present in the context, true skeletal hyphae occur in the rhizomorphs. Cystidia absent, hyphoid cystidiols may be present. Basidia clavate, with 4-sterigmata and a basal clamp. Basidiospores ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, thick-walled (double layered), brownish, not or weakly dextrinoid, cyanophilous.

            Index Fungorum Number: IF18541

            Type Species: Merulius destruens Pers. 1801

 

Species

Serpula americana (Burt) W.B. Cooke 1943

Serpula arizonica (Ginns) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula atrovirens (Burt) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula aurea (Fr.) P. Karst. 1889

Serpula borealis (Romell) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula byssoidea (Burt) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula ceracella (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) P. Karst. 1898

Serpula chlorina (Pat.) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula costaricensis M. Mata & Ryvarden 2007

Serpula crassa (Lloyd) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula cyatheicola Raymundo, J.I. Fuente, García-Jim., C.R. Martínez-González & R. Valenz. 2023

Serpula dendrocalami C.L. Zhao 2019

Serpula destruens (Pers.) Gray 1821

Serpula domestica (K.R. Falck) Bondartsev 1948

Serpula elliottii (Massee) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula erecta (Lloyd) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula eurocephala (Berk. & Broome) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula fugax (Fr.) P. Karst. 1889

Serpula fusca W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula fuscescens (Bres.) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula hexagonoides (Burt) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula himantioides (Fr.) P. Karst. 1884

Serpula illudens Overh. ex W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula imperfecta Overh. ex W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula incrassata (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Donk 1948

Serpula lacrymans (Wulfen) J. Schröt. 1888

Serpula lacrymans var. carbonaria W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula lacrymans var. himantioides (Fr.) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula lacrymans var. shastensis (Harmsen) Ginns & M.N.L. Lefebvre 1993

Serpula luridochracea (Corner) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula minor (Rea) Bondartsev 1956

Serpula mollusca (Fr.) P. Karst. 1889

Serpula montana (Burt) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula olivacea (Schwein.) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula olivascens (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula panuoides (Fr.) Zmitr. ex Zmitr. 2001

Serpula pinastri (Fr.) W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula porinoides (Fr.) P. Karst. 1889

Serpula pulverulenta (Sowerby) Bondartsev 1959

Serpula romellii (Ginns) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula rufa (Pers.) P. Karst. 1896

Serpula rufa var. pinicola P. Karst. 1896

Serpula rufa (Pers.) P. Karst. 1896 var. rufa

Serpula rugospora Overh. ex W.B. Cooke 1957

Serpula sclerotiorum (Bondartsev & Singer) Bondartsev 1956

Serpula serpens (Tode) P. Karst. 1889

Serpula serpens subsp. ceracella (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) P. Karst. 1898

Serpula serpens (Tode) P. Karst. 1889 subsp. serpens

Serpula serpens var. pinicola P. Karst. 1898

Serpula similis (Berk. & Broome) Ginns 1971

Serpula sororia (Burt) Zmitr. 2001

Serpula terrestris (Burt) S. Ahmad 1972

Serpula tignicola (Harmsen) M.P. Christ. 1960

Serpula umbrina (Fr.) Bon 1971

 

Reference:

Gorjón, S.P. (2020). Genera of corticioid fungi: keys, nomenclature, and taxonomy. Studies in Fungi 5(1), 125–309.

 

 

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