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Crustodontia
Crustodontia is a fungal genus of uncertain familial placement in the order Polyporales. The genus was circumscribed in 2005 to contain the crust fungus Crustodontia chrysocreas. This species was originally described as Corticium chrysocreas by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1873. Their description was as follows: "Subiculum bright yellow, thin; hymenium immarginate pallid, or yellow tinged with tawny." Crustodontia has a monomitic hyphal system, meaning it contains only generative hyphae, and these hyphae have...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Crustodontia chrysocreas
speciesCrustodontia chrysocreas
Crustodontia sp. 'chrysocreas-IN01'
speciesCrustodontia sp. 'chrysocreas-IN01'
Crustodontia sp. 'CA01'
speciesCrustodontia sp. 'CA01'
Crustodontia electrina
speciesCrustodontia electrina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 328288.