- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Lenzites stereoides (Fr.) Ryvarden
- Scientific name
- Lenzites stereoides
- Author
- (Fr.) Ryvarden
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira
- Comments etc.
- Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira, Tatiana Gibertoni
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Lenzites stereoides has a pileus white to pink and finely adpressed, velvety in narrow zones. The context is white to faint pink. The hymenial surface is most variable, from poroid with a few split pores, semi-daedaloid or labyrinthic, with long radiating dentate lamellae to deeply split flattened teeth, to purely hydnoid with long and almost cylindrical spines. The hyphal system is trimitic with hyaline binding hyphae, quite sparsely branched and long hyaline skeletal hyphae, endings of both these types project into the hymenium as cystidial organs often with scattered small crystals. The generative hyphae is thin to thick-walled and with clamps at the septa (Ryvarden 1974).
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 15 countries, most of records in Brazil.
Population and Trends
There are about 150 records of this species in GBIF, most of them in Brazil. Although not a rare species, it is not very common.
Population Trend: Uncertain
Habitat and Ecology
In Brazil, the species is found in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga and Cerrado.
Threats
The species is well distributed in Brazil. However, the Amazon has currently the highest rates of deforestation in the last decades and the Atlantic Forest, Caatinga and Cerrado are already hotspots.
Conservation Actions
Many records in Brazil are in unprotected areas.
Research needed
Other areas should be studied in order to assess the distribution of this species.
Use and Trade
None.
