Boidinia
Genus of fungi
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Boidinia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus is widely distributed, and contains 10 species.[1] Boidinia was described in 1982 with the type species Boidinia furfuracea (formerly placed in Gloeocystidiellum). It is named in honor of French mycologist Jacques Boidin.[2]
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| Boidinia | |
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| Boidinia furfuracea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Russulales |
| Family: | Russulaceae |
| Genus: | Boidinia Stalpers & Hjortstam (1982) |
| Type species | |
| Boidinia furfuracea (Bres.) Stalpers & Hjortstam (1982) | |
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N. Maekawa (1994) wrote: "The genus Boidinia is a satellite genus of Gloeocystidiellum and differs from the latter in forming loose texture in subiculum and globose, echinulate to verrucose basidiospores."[3]
Boidinia is probably not monophyletic and needs taxonomical redefinition.[4]
Species
The Catalogue of Life, on September 2025, recognizes 12 species of Boidinia:[5]
- Boidinia aculeata (Sheng H. Wu) E. Larss. & K.H. Larss.
- Boidinia borbonica Boidin, Lanq. & Gilles
- Boidinia cana Sheng H. Wu
- Boidinia dendrophysata Boidin & Gilles
- Boidinia donkii (S.S. Rattan) Sheng H. Wu & P.K. Buchanan
- Boidinia furfuracea (Bres.) Stalpers & Hjortstam
- Boidinia lacticolor (Bres.) Hjortstam & Ryvarden
- Boidinia luteola Sheng H. Wu
- Boidinia macrospora Sheng H. Wu
- Boidinia parva Ghob.-Nejh., S.L. Liu, Y.C. Dai & Langer
- Boidinia peroxydata (Rick) Hjortstam & Ryvarden
- Boidinia propinqua (H.S. Jacks. & Dearden) Hjortstam & Ryvarden
