Tomentella and related genera

 

Online-key for European species of tomentelloid fungi:

(with special regard of distribution in Germany)

Literature

(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, basidiome in KOH not blackish-brown

Tomentellopsis

2b. with other combinations of characteristics, basidiome in KOH blackish-brown

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 to olivaceous-brownish,

 

      hyphae with clamps, spores yellowish

Tomentella italica

4b. with other combinations of characteristics  

5

5a. Hyphae with clamps

6

5a. Hyphae without clamps

7

6a. Hymenophore hydnoid, ferrugineous brownish

Tomentella

6b. Hymenophore smooth, gray to gray olivaceous, spores hyalin

Pseudotomentella

      (spores brown > unclear Tomentella- or resupinate Thelephora-species)

 

7a. Hymenophore with penicillate teeths, projecting by cystidia-like hyphae,     

 

      rusty to cinnamon

Tomentella (Odontia) fibrosa

7b. Hymenophore smooth

Pseudotomentella

 

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