Osteina is a fungal genus in the family Dacryobolaceae.

Osteina
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Osteina

Donk (1966)
Type species
Osteina obducta
(Berk.) Donk (1966)

Taxonomy

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The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with Polyporus obductus as the type species.[1]

Catalogue of Life lists 3 accepted species:[2]

Description

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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.[3]


References

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  1. ^ Donk, M.A. (1966). "Osteina, a new genus of Polyporaceae". Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde. 44: 83–87.
  2. ^ "Osteina | COL".
  3. ^ Cui, Bio-Kai; Vlasák, Josef; Dai, You-Cheng (2014). "The phylogenetic position of Osteina obducta (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) based on samples from Northern Hemisphere" (PDF). Chiang Journal Mai of Science. 41 (4): 838–845.