Crystallodon

Crystallodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Auriculariales
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Crystallodon
Alvarenga (2021)
Species:
C. subgelatinosum
Binomial name
Crystallodon subgelatinosum
(Bodman) Alvarenga & Gibertoni (2021)

Crystallodon is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. The type and only species, Crystallodon subgelatinosum, forms effused, gelatinous, basidiocarps (fruit bodies) covered with small, sterile spines on fallen wood. The species was formerly placed in Heterochaete, but molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, indicates that Crystallodon is distinct.[1] The species was originally described from Panama[2] and has also been recorded from Brazil.[1]

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