Osteina Explained

Osteina is a fungal genus in the family Dacryobolaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with Polyporus obductus as the type species.

Catalogue of Life lists 3 accepted species:[1]

Description

Osteina is characterized by fruit bodies that are sessile to stipitate, which are bone hard when dry. It has a monomitic hyphal system, containing only generative hyphae with clamps. The spores are hyaline and thin-walled, and are inamyloid and acyanophilic. Osteina causes a brown rot in gymnosperm wood.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Osteina COL.