Dacryopinax G.W. Martin, Lloydia, 1948

Castro-Santiuste, Sandra, Sierra, Sigfrido, Guzmán-Dávalos, Laura, Cifuentes, Joaquín, Evans, Thomas, Martínez-González, César Ramiro, Sizzo, Hernán Alvarado- & Luna-Vega, Isolda, 2020, Dacryopinax (Fungi: Dacrymycetales) in Mexico, Phytotaxa 446 (1), pp. 6-22 : 9-10

Dacryopinax G.W. Martin, Lloydia 11: 116 (1948).

Basidiome cylindric when young, stipitate to substipitate, cup-shaped, spathulate, petaloid, lobulate, or even morchelloid pileus when mature; consistency tough-gelatinous to cartilaginous. Sterile parts of the pileus and the stipe normally covered with a layer of thick-walled marginal hyphae (hairs). Hymenium unilateral, smooth, folded, or papillate. Basidiospores curved-cylindrical, aseptate when immature, uniseptate to triseptate when mature, germination by germ tubes or conidia. Probasidia cylindrical to clavate; metabasidia aseptate, bifurcate; sterigmata cylindrical, attenuated at the tip when mature.

Type species: Dacryopinax elegans (Berk. & M.A. Curtis 1849: 239) G.W. Martin (1948: 116) .

Observations: Kennedy (1958) described the context of the basidiome as follows: “composition homogeneous, of thick-walled fibrous hyphae with bulbous septa”. McNabb (1965b) refuted to consider it for the entire genus by mentioning that only two species ( D. dennisii and D. indacocheae ) could be included under the definition of Kennedy (1958). McNabb (1965b) mentioned the wide variation in basidiome shape, and that the internal organization of Dacryopinax was not as clearly defined as that of Calocera (Fr. 1821: 485) Fries (1828: 233) and Heterotextus Lloyd (1922: 1151) . On the other hand, Donk (1941) and Nannfeldt (1947) mentioned some similarity between the context of the Dacryopinax and some species of Calocera .