Atractocolax, a new heterobasidiomycetous genus based on a species vectored by conifericolous bark beetles

Authors
Kirschner, R Bauer, R Oberwinkler, F
Citation
R. Kirschner et al., Atractocolax, a new heterobasidiomycetous genus based on a species vectored by conifericolous bark beetles, MYCOLOGIA, 91(3), 1999, pp. 538-543
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
MYCOLOGIA
ISSN journal
00275514 → ACNP
Volume
91
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
538 - 543
Database
ISI
SICI code
0027-5514(199905/06)91:3<538:AANHGB>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
During an investigation on fungi associated with bark beetles infesting Nor way spruce and Scots pine in Germany and Switzerland, a hitherto unknown he terobasidiomycetous fungus with gelatinous, pulvinate fruit-bodies, gastero id auricularioid basidia, and colacosomes was found and is described as Atr actocolax pulvinatus gen. et sp. nov.