The
fruit bodies of
Dentocorticium fungi are
annual. They range from effused (crust-like), to effused-reflexed (crust-like with edges curling to form rudimentary caps) or cap-like, with a texture ranging from membranous, to leathery or soft corky. The
spore-bearing surface are often tooth-like, bumpy with
tubercles, or spiny. In some species the surface is poroid, daedaleoid (maze-like), and sometimes develops irregular ridges or hyphal pegs (bundles of hyphae that project from the
hymenium).
Dentocorticium has a dimitic or trimitic
hyphal system. The generative hyphae have
clamp connections. There are brown skeletal hyphae present in the subiculum (a layer of loosely intertwined hyphae forming a mat covering the
substrate and underlying the fruit body), spine
trama, and hyphal pegs. Microbinding hyphae may be present in the subiculum or the substrate. Dendrohyphidia are present. Cylindrical to somewhat spindle shaped
cystidia may be present.
Basidia are club shaped and have four
sterigmata.
Spores are
ellipsoid to cylindrical in shape,
translucent with thin walls, and smooth. They
do not react with
Melzer's reagent, and acyanophilous (having cell walls that do not readily absorb cotton blue stain). ==Species==