Dictyonema irrigatum

Dictyonema irrigatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Hygrophoraceae
Genus:	Dictyonema
Species:	D. irrigatum
Binomial name
Dictyonema irrigatum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Lücking (2013)
Synonyms [1]
Corticium irrigatumBerk. & M.A.Curtis (1860) Terana irrigata(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Kuntze (1891)

Dictyonema irrigatum is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. ^[2] It was originally described as a new species in 1860 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis, who classified it as a member of the fungal genus Corticium . In their Latin description, Berkeley and Curtis characterized the species as having a thin, reflexed cap with a wrinkled- tomentose (woolly) surface and a smooth, cream-coloured hymenium (spore-bearing surface). They noted that it formed dense patches on rocks and recorded the type locality as Hong Kong. ^[3] Robert Lücking transferred the species to the genus Dictyonema in 2013. ^[4]

References

1. "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Dictyonema irrigatum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Lücking, in Lücking, Dal-Forno, Lawrey, Bungartz, Holgado Rojas, Hernández, Marcelli, Moncada, Morales, Nelsen, Paz, Salcedo, Spielmann, Wilk, Will-Wolf & Yánez-Ayabaca, Phytotaxa 139(1): 30 (2013)". Species Fungorum . Retrieved 2 August 2025.
2. "Dictyonema irrigatum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Lücking". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
3. Berkeley, M.J.; Curtis, M.A. (1860). "Characters of new fungi, collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition by Charles Wright". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 4: 111–130 [123].
4. Lücking, Robert; Dal-Forno, Manuela; Lawrey, James D.; Bungartz, Frank; Rojas, María E. Holgado; Hernández M., Jesús E.; Marcelli, Marcelo P.; Moncada, Bibiana; Morales, Eduardo A.; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Paz, Elias; Salcedo, Luis; Spielmann, Adriano A.; Wilk, Karina; Will-Wolf, Susan; Yánez-Ayabaca, Alba (2013). "Ten new species of lichenized Basidiomycota in the genera Dictyonema and Cora (Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), with a key to all accepted genera and species in the Dictyonema clade". Phytotaxa. 139 (1): 1–38. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.139.1.1.