Tomentella, Tomentellopsis, Amaurodon, Pseudotomentella


	Tomentella and related genera

Online-key for European species of tomentelloid fungi:

(with special regard of distribution in Germany)

Nomenclature and taxonomy are based mainly of M.J. Larsen (1974)

and U. Köljalg (1996).

(Spores measures without ornaments!)

Genera-key (created by Elia Martini and Frank Dämmrich)

1a. Spores blue-violet in KOH, partly blue in water,
fruit bodies fresh with blue colours, dry yellow-greenish	*Amaurodon*
1b. Spores not blue-violet in KOH and/or in water	2
2a. Hymenophore smooth, hyphae without clamps, but rarely present
on subicular hyphae, spores hyalin to pale brownish, globose
to ellipsoid to 8 µm, spores ornaments echinulate (not bifurcate)	*Tomentellopsis*
2b. with other combinations of characteristics	3
3a. Spores ornaments bifurcate or trifurcate (bicuspid or forked)	4
3b. Spores ornaments echinulate (spines not bifurcate or trifurcate)	*Tomentella*
4a. Hymenophore with hydnoid outgrowths, grey brownish,
hyphae with clamps	*Tomentella* *italica*
4b. with other combinations of characteristics	5
5a. Hyphen without clamps	6
5b. Hyphae with clamps, hymenophore ferrugineous brownish, distinct hydnoid	*Tomentella (Odontia)*
6a. Hymenophore with penicillate teeths, projecting by cystidia-like hyphae,
rust reddish	*Tomentella* *(Odontia) fibrosa*
6b. Hymenophore smooth	*Pseudotomentella*