Antella (fungus)

Antella is a genus of three species of crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.

Antella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Steccherinaceae
Genus:
Antella

Miettinen (2016)
Type species
Antella niemelaei
(Vampola & Vlasák) Miettinen (2016)
Species

A. americana
A. chinensis
A. niemelaei

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by Finnish mycologist Otto Miettinen in 2016 with Antella niemelaei as the type species. All three species were formerly classified in the polyphyletic genus Antrodiella. This is reflected in the name Antella, which is a "construct of letters from the genus name Antrodiella."[1]

Description

Antella species have light-coloured, crust-like fruit bodies with a poroid surface. They have a dimitic hyphal system, with both generative and skeletal hyphae, and clamp connections in the hyphae. The thin-walled spores are ellipsoid, measuring less than 4.5 by 2.5 μm. There are well-differentiated gloeocystidia, a feature that helps differentiate Antella from Antrodiella.[1]

Species
  • Antella americana (Ryvarden & Gilbertson) Ryvarden (2016)
  • Antella chinensis (H.S.Yuan) Miettinen (2016)
  • Antella niemelaei (Vampola & Vlasák) Miettinen (2016)

References
  1. Miettinen, Otto; Ryvarden, Leif (2016). "Polypore genera Antella, Austeria, Butyrea, Citripora, Metuloidea and Trulla (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales)" (PDF). Annales Botanici Fennici. 53 (3–4): 157–172. doi:10.5735/085.053.0403.
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