Osteina

Genus of fungi

Osteina

Scientific classification
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Fungi

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Basidiomycota

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Agaricomycetes

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Polyporales

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Dacryobolaceae

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Osteina

Donk (1966)

Type species
Osteina obducta

(Berk.) Donk (1966)

Osteina is a fungal genus in the family Dacryobolaceae.

## 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]

* Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk
* Osteina rhodophila (Spirin & Zmitr.) Bernicchia & Gorjón
* Osteina undosa (Peck) Zmitr.

## 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.

Taxon identifiers

Osteina|

* Wikidata: Q7107596
* AusFungi: 60016226
* CoL: 63H2H
* EoL: 22366
* EPPO: 1OSTIG
* GBIF: 2542678
* iNaturalist: 500155
* IndexFungorum: 18164
* IRMNG: 1311623
* MycoBank: 18164
* NBN: NHMSYS0001491539
* NCBI: 1492767
* NZOR: ff36ca42-99b4-4a51-9ef6-40f007b27eb7
* Open Tree of Life: 202387
* SpeciesFungorum: 18164

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