''Datroniella'' is a genus of poroid crust fungi in the family

Polyporaceae The Polyporaceae are a family of poroid fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota. The flesh of their fruit bodies varies from soft (as in the case of the dryad's saddle illustrated) to very tough. Most members of this family have their hymeniu ...

. It was

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...

in 2014 by Chinese mycologists as a segregate genus from ''

Datronia ''Datronia'' is a genus of poroid crust fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with '' Datronia mollis'' as the type species. ''Datronia'' fungi cause a white rot in hardwoods. ''Datronia'' c ...

''. ''Datroniella'' differs from ''Datronia'' by their moderately to frequently branched skeletal hyphae in the context, and absence of dendrohyphidia (modified terminal

hypha A hypha (; ) is a long, branching, filamentous structure of a fungus, oomycete, or actinobacterium. In most fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative growth, and are collectively called a mycelium. Structure A hypha consists of one or ...

e in the

hymenium The hymenium is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores. In some species all of the cells of the hymenium develop into basidia or asci, while in others some ...

). The type species of ''Datroniella'' is '' D. scutellata'', a fungus originally described as ''Polyporus scutellatus'' by Lewis David de Schweinitz. ''Datroniella'' fungi cause a white rot, usually on

angiosperm Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

wood.

Species

*'' Datroniella melanocarpa'' B.K.Cui, Hai J.Li & Y.C.Dai (2014) – China *'' Datroniella minuta'' Lira & Ryvarden (2016) – Brazil *'' Datroniella scutellata'' (Schwein.) B.K.Cui, Hai J.Li & Y.C.Dai (2014) *'' Datroniella subtropica'' B.K.Cui, Hai J.Li & Y.C.Dai (2014) – China *''

Datroniella tibetica ''Datroniella'' is a genus of poroid crust fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It was circumscribed in 2014 by Chinese mycologists as a segregate genus from ''Datronia''. ''Datroniella'' differs from ''Datronia'' by their moderately to frequently ...

'' B.K.Cui, Hai J.Li & Y.C.Dai (2014) – China *'' Datroniella tropica'' B.K.Cui, Hai J.Li & Y.C.Dai (2014) – China

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q30694174 Polyporaceae Polyporales genera Taxa described in 2014 Taxa named by Yu-Cheng Dai Taxa named by Bao-Kai Cui