Scleroderma (sect. Reticulatae) Guzman

(3) Scleroderma sect. Reticulatae Guzmán, Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad 84: 175 (2013) ≡ Scleroderma sect. Scleroderma sensu Guzmán, Ciencia (México) 25: 202 (1967) (non Scleroderma Pers. sect. Scleroderma) Type species:— Scleroderma citrinum Pers., Synopsis Methodica Fungorum (Göttingen) 1: 153 (1801) (= Scleroderma aurantium (L.) Pers., Synopsis Methodica Fungorum (Göttingen) 1: 153 (1801) (nom. rejic.)) Description:— Basidiomata usually small, less than 50 mm in diameter, sessile to stipitate, subglobose to tuberiform. Peridium usually leathery, less than 1 mm in thickness, without a color change or turning reddish, purplish to brownish after damaged, with thin to thick, flaky to granular squamules. Gleba usually compact at first, becoming pulverulent. Basal rhizomorphs usually moderately abundant to abundant, whitish. Basidiospores usually globose, thick-walled, with reticulate ornamentation, brownish to purplish. Basidia usually clavate. Gleba trama usually composed of nearly colorless hyphae. Clamp connections usually present.