Hyphodontia barba-jovis (Bull.) J. Erikss.
no common name
Schizoporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Schizoporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include 1) resupinate growth on wood, 2) a whitish to ocherish fruitbody that is odontioid with dense, irregular, conic spines up to 0.3cm long (under a lens with brush-like tips), the consistency soft to fibrous, the margin fringed-tomentose to indeterminate, 3) spores that are nearly round to elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, and colorless, 4) cystidia that are long-cylindric, thick-walled except in the blunt tips, sometimes with knee-like bends, sometimes with secondary septa, and 5) a monomitic hyphal system, the hyphae cyanophilic, with clamp connections, with branches from or close to clamp connections.
Microscopic:
SPORES 4.5-5.5(6) x 3.5-4.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, thin-walled, with 1 droplet; CYSTIDIA numerous in hymenium and in the tips of the spines, 80-300 x 6-8 microns, cylindric, often flexuose and constricted, cyanophilic, thick-walled except in the apical part; "intercalary hyphal segments may be cystidioid"; hymenial cystidia often geniculate [with a knee-like bend], especially in the apical part of the spines; secondary septa without clamp connections occurring in the cystidia, rarely septa with clamp connections; HYPHAE monomitic, about 2-3 microns wide, distinct, cyanophilic, clamp connections at all septa, branches from or close to clamp connections, "somewhat thickwalled, more or less parallel and sparsely branched in the centre of the aculei, in the subiculum irregularly intertwined; subhymenial hyphae thinner and in mature fruitbodies forming a dense texture", (Eriksson), SPORES 4.5-6 x 3.5-4.5 microns, nearly round to oval, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; BASIDIA 4-spored, 15-25 x 5-6 microns, narrowly clavate, somewhat constricted, with basal clamp connection; LEPTOCYSTIDIA up to 280 x 8 microns, long and cylindric, colorless, cyanophilic, thick-walled, with blunt, thin-walled tips; HYPHAE monomitic, 2.5-4.5 microns wide, thin-walled to thick-walled, septa with clamp connections, (Breitenbach)
Notes:
Hyphodontia barba-jovis has been found in BC, NS, ON, PQ, IA, LA, MD, MI, NY, and SC, (Ginns), FL, PQ, Costa Rica, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Kenya, and Taiwan, (Langer), Norway and Finland, (Eriksson), and Switzerland (Breitenbach).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Hyphodontia abieticola has broadly elliptic spores measuring 5-6 x 3-3.5 microns, and occurs on conifer wood, (Breitenbach). H. abieticola "grows on coniferous wood, has an effused fruitbody with small aculei and a somewhat different spore shape", (Eriksson).Habitat
on bark or lignum of decayed wood, normally of hardwoods, "both fallen and dead, still standing trunks or hanging branches", (Eriksson), on dead wood of hardwoods and more rarely of conifers, "on the underside of trunks and branches lying on the ground"; spring to fall, (Breitenbach), Abies (fir), Nyssa (tupelo), Picea (spruce), Pinus (pine), Pseudotsuga (Douglas-fir), Thuja, (Ginns), all year (Buczacki)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Aleuria xanthomela Gillet
Podophacidium terrestre Niessl in Rab.