Taxon Details: Alpova C.W.Dodge
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Family:
Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)
Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)
Scientific Name:
Alpova C.W.Dodge
Alpova C.W.Dodge
Primary Citation:
Alpova, a new genus of Rhizopogonaceae, with further notes on Leucogaster and Arangeliella.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 18: 461. 1931
Alpova, a new genus of Rhizopogonaceae, with further notes on Leucogaster and Arangeliella.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 18: 461. 1931
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Diagnosis: Sequestrate, globose to irregular in shape. Peridium well developed, variable in thickness, usually dry, whitish but usually discoloring with age and handling. Gleba sticky and gelatinous, with gel-filled chambers, not forming a true hymenium, separated by pale colored veins, pale colored at first, but darkening with age. Spores hyaline, ellipsoid to oblong, smooth, inamyloid, strongly cyanophilic when young. Clamp connections usually present.
Registration number: MB #19010
Status & Disposition: Sequestrate genus of Boletales.
Type species: Rhizopogon diplophloeus [=Alpova cinamomeus]
Ectomycorrhiza: Betulaceae, possibly Pinaceae or Fagaceae
Distribution: At present confined to Northern Hemisphere.
Diagnosis: Sequestrate, globose to irregular in shape. Peridium well developed, variable in thickness, usually dry, whitish but usually discoloring with age and handling. Gleba sticky and gelatinous, with gel-filled chambers, not forming a true hymenium, separated by pale colored veins, pale colored at first, but darkening with age. Spores hyaline, ellipsoid to oblong, smooth, inamyloid, strongly cyanophilic when young. Clamp connections usually present.
Registration number: MB #19010
Status & Disposition: Sequestrate genus of Boletales.
Type species: Rhizopogon diplophloeus [=Alpova cinamomeus]
Ectomycorrhiza: Betulaceae, possibly Pinaceae or Fagaceae
Distribution: At present confined to Northern Hemisphere.