Boidinia

Boidinia
Boidinia furfuracea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Russulaceae
Genus: Boidinia
Stalpers & Hjortstam (1982)
Type species
Boidinia furfuracea
(Bres.) Stalpers & Hjortstam (1982)
Species

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Boidinia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus is widely distributed, and contains 10 species.[1] Boidinia was described in 1982 with the type species Boidinia furfuracea (formerly placed in Gloeocystidiellum). It is named in honor of French mycologist Jacques Boidin.[2]

N. Maekawa (1994) wrote: "The genus Boidinia is a satellite genus of Gloeocystidiellum and differs from the latter in forming loose texture in subiculum and globose, echinulate to verrucose basidiospores."[3]

Boidinia is probably not monophyletic and needs taxonomical redefinition.[4]

Species

The Catalogue of Life, on September 2025, recognizes 12 species of Boidinia:[5]

  • Boidinia aculeata (Sheng H. Wu) E. Larss. & K.H. Larss.
  • Boidinia borbonica Boidin, Lanq. & Gilles
  • Boidinia cana Sheng H. Wu
  • Boidinia dendrophysata Boidin & Gilles
  • Boidinia donkii (S.S. Rattan) Sheng H. Wu & P.K. Buchanan
  • Boidinia furfuracea (Bres.) Stalpers & Hjortstam
  • Boidinia lacticolor (Bres.) Hjortstam & Ryvarden
  • Boidinia luteola Sheng H. Wu
  • Boidinia macrospora Sheng H. Wu
  • Boidinia parva Ghob.-Nejh., S.L. Liu, Y.C. Dai & Langer
  • Boidinia peroxydata (Rick) Hjortstam & Ryvarden
  • Boidinia propinqua (H.S. Jacks. & Dearden) Hjortstam & Ryvarden

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ^ Hjortstam K, Stalpers JA (1982). "Notes on Corticiaceae (Basidiomycetes) XI. Boidinia, a new genus segregated from Gloeocystidiellum". Mycotaxon. 14 (1): 75โ€“81.
  3. ^ Maekawa N. (1994). "Taxonomic study of Japanese Corticiaceae (Aphyllophoraceae) II". Report of the Tottori Mycological Institute. 32: 1โ€“123.
  4. ^ Larsson E, Larsson K-H (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships of russuloid basidiomycetes with emphasis on aphyllophoralean taxa" (PDF). Mycologia. 95: 1037โ€“1065. doi:10.2307/3761912. PMID 21149013.
  5. ^ Kirk, Paul (ed.). "Boidinia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 13 September 2025.