Osteina

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = 2008-07-23 Oligoporus obductus (Berk.) Gilb. & Ryvarden 47559.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Osteina | authority = Donk (1966) | type_species = '''''Osteina obducta''''' | type_species_authority = (Berk.) Donk (1966) }}

'''''Osteina''''' is a fungal genus in the family Dacryobolaceae.

==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, with ''Polyporus obductus'' as the type species.<ref name="Donk 1966"/>

Catalogue of Life lists 3 accepted species:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/63H2H|title=Osteina {{!}} COL}}</ref> *''Osteina obducta'' (Berk.) Donk *''Osteina rhodophila'' (Spirin & Zmitr.) Bernicchia & Gorjón *''Osteina undosa'' (Peck) Zmitr.

==Description== ''Osteina'' is characterized by fruit bodies that are sessile to stipitate, which are bone hard when dry. It has a monomitic hyphal system, containing only generative hyphae with clamps. The spores are hyaline and thin-walled, and are inamyloid and acyanophilic. ''Osteina'' causes a brown rot in gymnosperm wood.<ref name="Cui 2014"/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Cui 2014">{{cite journal |author1=Cui, Bio-Kai |author2=Vlasák, Josef |author3=Dai, You-Cheng |year=2014 |title=The phylogenetic position of ''Osteina obducta'' (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) based on samples from Northern Hemisphere |journal=Chiang Journal Mai of Science |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=838–845 |url=http://www.thaiscience.info/journals/Article/CMJS/10932938.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name="Donk 1966">{{cite journal |author=Donk, M.A. |title=''Osteina'', a new genus of Polyporaceae |journal=Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde |year=1966 |volume=44 |pages=83–87}}</ref>

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Category:Polyporales Category:Inedible fungi Category:Polyporales genera Category:Taxa named by Marinus Anton Donk Category:Taxa described in 1966