Inocutis is a genus of twelve species of polypore fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae.
Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed by Jean-Louis Fiasson and Tuomo Niemeläin 1984 as a segregate genus from Inonotus. They originally included three European species formerly placed in Inonotus section Phymatopilus, a grouping of species conceived by Marinus Anton Donk in 1974. Molecular data later supported the genus concept. Inocutis is phylogenetically close to Fomitiporella.
Description Inocutis species produce annual fruit bodies. They are characterized by the absence of setae, the presence of a rudimentary granular core, and the presence of sclerified hyphae in the granular core. They have yellowish to brownish spores that are ellipsoid in shape, and non-dextrinoid. The hyphal system is monomitic, consisting of only generative hyphae. They all grow on deciduous substrates.
Species
Inocutis dentata (Decock & Ryvarden) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu 2022 Inocutis dryophila (Berk.) Fiasson & Niemelä 1984 Inocutis jamaicensis (Murrill) A.M.Gottlieb, J.E.Wright & Moncalvo 2002 – North America; South America Inocutis levis (P.Karst.) Y.C.Dai 2000 – China Inocutis ludoviciana (Pat.) T.Wagner & M.Fisch. 2002 Inocutis mikadoi (Lloyd) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu 2022 Inocutis porrecta (Murrill) Baltazar 2010 Inocutis rheades (Pers.) Fiasson & Niemelä 1984 – Europe; Middle East Inocutis subdryophila Y.C.Dai & H.S.Yuan 2005 – China Inocutis tamaricis (Pat.) Fiasson & Niemelä 1984 – Africa; Asia; Europe; Middle East Inocutis tenuicarnis (Pegler & D.A. Reid) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu 2022 Inocutis texana (Murrill) S.Martínez 2006 – North America; South America
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