Aleurodiscus fujii (Sheng H. Wu) S.H. He & Y.L. Xu, 2025

Xu, Y. L., Cao, Y. F., Liu, S. L., Nakasone, K. K. & He, S. H., 2025, Taxonomy and phylogeny of Stereaceae (Russulales, Basidiomycota): two new genera, nine new species and twenty new combinations, Persoonia 54 (1), pp. 119-145 : 127

Aleurodiscus fujii (Sheng H. Wu) S.H. He & Y.L. Xu , comb. nov. MB 844714 .

Basionym: Neoaleurodiscus fujii Sheng H. Wu, Mycologia 102: 219. 2010.

Notes: Wu et al. (2010) described the new genus, Neoaleurodiscus , based on the type species N. fujii collected from Mount Fuji in Japan on Rhododendron , and later Dai & He (2016) also found it in southwestern China. Morphologically, the genus mainly differs from Aleurodiscus s. str. by having thick-walled smooth basidiospores.However,the phylogenetic results of the present study and Rajchenberg et al. (2021) showed that N. fujii was nested within the Aleurodiscus s. str. lineage with strong support values. According to the above phylogenetic delimitation of Aleurodiscus s. str., the genus is still morphologically heterogenous with simple- or nodose-septate hyphae, smooth or ornamented basidiospores, and with or without acanthohyphidia. More evidence is needed to prove whether this delimitation of Aleurodiscus s. str. is natural and reasonable.