Alpova C.W.Dodge

  • Family

    Gasteroid agarics (Basidiomycota)

  • Scientific Name

    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

  • 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.

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