Hodophilus R. Heim 1958

Key to known Hodophilus species 1 Pileus white to yellow, vivid yellow, yellow brown, orange grey......................................................................................................2 1 Pileus greyish brown, light brown, coffee brown, hair brown, dark brown, greyish brown to brownish orange............................10 2 Stipe vivid yellow to brown...............................................................................................................................................................3 2 Stipe white to yellowish, greyish orange............................................................................................................................................5 3 Stipe brown, without any yellow colour............................................................................................................... H. hymenocephalus 3 Stipe have more or less yellow colour................................................................................................................................................4 4 Stipe colour soon changes and becomes partly to almost completely brown with age..................................................... H. praecox 4 Stipe vivid yellow and remains so even in mature basidiomata....................................................................................... H. micaceus 5 Lamellae number>20..........................................................................................................................................................................6 5 Lamellae number≤20..........................................................................................................................................................................9 6 Caulocystidia often irregularly inflated, nodulose, lobate and twisted..................................................................... H. albofloccipes 6 Caulocystidia clavate, occasionally subcapitate or obpyriform, obtuse.............................................................................................7 7 Basidiomata with a slight yam bean odor...........................................................................................................................................8 7 Basidiomata with an unpleasant, mercaptan-like odor........................................................................................... H. tenuicystidiatus 8 Pileus 15–50 mm diam.; pileipellis cells obpyrifrom, subglobous, ellipsoid, sphaero-pedunculate or broadly clavate.. H. glabripes 8 Pileus 11–25 mm diam.; pileipellis cells obpyrifrom, subglobose....................................................................... H. pseudoglabripes 9 Naphthalene odour; lamella number≤18; caulocystidia clavate or obpyriform...............................................................................11 9 Indistinct odour; lamella number=16–22; caulocystidia irregularly nodulose-lobate, mostly obtuse...................... H. phaeoxanthus 10 Pileus 6–18 mm; stipe 25–40 × 1.0–2.0 mm; basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, Q m =1.17–1.36......................................... H. pallidus 10 Pileus 2–10 mm; stipe 9–30 × 0.8–1.5 mm; basidiospores narrowly ellipsoid, Q m =1.22-1.40............................................ H. smithii 11 Basidiomata with distinct naphthalene odours.................................................................................................................................12 11 Basidiomata with weak naphthalene odours....................................................................................................................................14 12 Pileus 4–11 mm diam.; pileus colour dark blond to eye brown and stipe colour bronze to brownish orange..................... H. hesleri 12 Some pileus more than 11 mm diam.; pileus colour and stipe colour grey brown..........................................................................13 13 Lamellae number 18–26; basidiospores 5.1–5.9 × 4.2–4.7 μm, Q m =1.20–1.36.................................................................. H. foetens 13 Lamellae number 15–20; basidiospores 5.0–5.7 × 3.9–4.5 μm, Q m =1.20–1.36............................................................ H. subfoetens 14 Stipe without dots............................................................................................................................................................ H. rugulosus 14 Stipe have dots..................................................................................................................................................................................15 15 Stipe with distinct dark dots.............................................................................................................................................................16 15 Stipe never with dark dots................................................................................................................................................................17 16 Pileus 7–14 mm diam.; basidiospores 4.6–5.4 × 3.5–4.2 μm, Q m =1.21-1.39; caulocystidia 18.0–33.5 × 5.5–11.5 μm............................................................................................................................................................................................................ H. atropunctus 16 Pileus 5–22 mm diam.; basidiospores 4.8–5.4 × 3.9–4.5 μm, Q m = 1.15–1.28; caulocystidia 20.5–38.5 × 6.5–13.5 μm.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... H. variabilipes 17 Strong odour; lamellae colour pallid to pale orange........................................................................................................................18 17 Weak or indistinct odour; lamellae colour orange grey, brown, or grey brown...............................................................................20 18 Lamellae pale orange; basidiospores 4.0–5.0 × 3.0–5.0 μm, Q m =1.0–1.66........................................................................ H. indicus 18 Lamellae pale drab to darker with age.............................................................................................................................................19 19 Caulocystidia on average wider than 8 μm..................................................................................................................... H. peckianus 19 Caulocystidia on average narrower than 7 μm............................................................................................................. H. paupertinus 20 Stipe colour changing with age........................................................................................................................................................21 20 Stipe colour unchanging with age....................................................................................................................................................23 21 Stipe grey brown to dark brown with age................................................................................................................... H. cambriensis 21 Stipe yellow or light yellow to greyish yellow or dark grey............................................................................................................22 22 Basidiospores 4.1–4.7 × 3.3–3.8 μm............................................................................................................................. H. stramineus 22 Basidiospores 4.8–5.5 × 3.8–4.4 μm................................................................................................................................. H. anatinus 23 Stipe yellow; basidiospores 4.9–5.6 × 3.9–4.3 μm................................................................................................... H. subfuscescens 23 Stipe dark brown to greyish brown; basidiospores shorter or longer...............................................................................................24 24 Stipe 25–35 mm; 22–24 lamellae; basidiospores 4.4–4.9 μm long.............................................................................. H. carpathicus 24 Stipe 18–25 mm; 11–19 lamellae; basidiospores 6.3–6.5 μm long............................................................................. H. decurrentior
Published as part of Tang, Songming, Lv, Tong, He, Jun, Yu, Fengming, Luo, Hongmei & Li, Shuhong, 2023, Hodophilus pseudoglabripes (Clavariaceae, Agaricales), a new species from Thailand, pp. 219-230 in Phytotaxa 597 (3) on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.597.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7958565