Atractocolax, a new heterobasidiomycetous genus based on a species vectored by conifericolous bark beetles

摘要

During an investigation on fungi associated with bark beetles infesting Norway spruce and Scots pine in Germany and Switzerland, a hitherto unknown heterobasidiomycetous fungus with gelatinous, pulvinate fruit-bodies, gasteroid auricularioid basidia, and colacosomes was found and is described as Atractocolax pulvinatus gen. et sp. nov.