396 THELEPHORACEiE 



Fam. IV. THELEPHORACE^E 



Erect and stipitate, cup-shaped, effused, with the upper portion 

 free and reflexed or resupinate. Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, 

 coriaceous, waxy or gelatinous, even to rugulose, ribbed or papillose, 

 the surface glabrous, finely pulverulent or minutely velvety, with 

 projecting setae. Basidia clavate, 1-4-spored, normally tetrasporous. 

 Spores usually aseptate, 3-septate in the non-British Heterobasidium 

 chloraseens. The papillae are for the most part accidental, generally 

 arising in the resupinate species from Sp/icerice, growing on the bark 

 beneath and not existing when the fungus grows on a surface free 

 from Sphcerice. True papillae, however, sometimes occur on the 

 pileate, terrestrial species. Some species are occasionally phosphor- 

 escent, as 1861. In the gelatinous species the aseptate and tetras- 

 porous basidia distinguish them from certain members of Trcmellinacece, 

 where the basidia are longitudinally and cruciately septate, or if the 

 spores are aseptate the basidia are deeply bifurcate and bisporous. 

 Hypomyces rosellus often stains the hymenium of T/iekp/wra, Corticium^ 

 and other genera of Thdcphoracece a bright purple-rose colour. 



Massee has published a Monograph of the Thelephoracecz in 



Journ. Li?in. Soc. (Bot.) xxv. (1889) and xxvii. (1890). The sequence 



of the genera adopted here is that of P. A. Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum 9 



vol. vi., which is a slight modification of the order as given in Fries's 



Hymenomycetes Europcei. Species 1781 — 1925 



Key to the Genera. 



Large. 



Erect, funnel-shaped ; hymenium glabrous 80 Craterellus. 



Erect to resupinate ; hymenium rugulose 81 Thelephora. 



Effuso-reflexed ; hymenium even, glabrous 83 Stereum. 



Horizontal, attached by a small base behind 82 Cladoderris. 



Resupinate. 



Hymenium smooth-setulose 84 Hvmenoch^ete. 



Hymenium rough-setulose 86 Peniophora. 



Hymenium glabrous 85 Corticium. 



Hymenium pulverulent 87 Coniophora. 



Small, cup-shaped, usually single 89 Cyphella. 



Minute, cup-shaped, crowded 90 Solenia. 



Parasitic on living leaves and stems 88 Exobasidium. 



