Gyrodontium sacchari (Spreng.) Hjortstam

de la Fuente, Javier Isaac, García-Jiménez, Jesús, López, Caribell Yuridia, Oros-Ortega, Iván, Vela-Hernández, Reyna Yazuly, Guevara-Guerrero, Gonzalo, Garza Ocañas, Fortunato, Chay Casanova, Jesús Antonio, Ibarra Garibay, León Esteban & Bandala, Victor Manuel, 2020, An annotated checklist of the macrofungi (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Glomeromycota) from Quintana Roo, Mexico, Check List 16 (3), pp. 627-648 : 644

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.3.627
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5468991
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C71A5B-FFC0-D940-B034-AA26BA64F7DA
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Gyrodontium sacchari (Spreng.) Hjortstam
status

Treatment

Gyrodontium sacchari (Spreng.) Hjortstam View in CoL

Material studied. MEXICO - Quintana Roo • J.I. de la Fuente 298 ( ITCV); Chetumal; 18°31′N, 088°18′W; alt. 8 m; 17 Jan. 2017 GoogleMaps .

Habit and habitat. Resupinate on dead trees in secondary vegetation.

Identification. This species can be recognized by the resupinate basidiomata with brownish colours, the hymenia composed by truncate spines, which are yellowish when young, becoming olive brown when aged, and the globose, brown spores, 4.0–5.0 × 2.5–3.6 µm. Our material agrees with the descriptions provided by from Valenzuela et al. (2014) and Hembrom et al. (2014).