Boidinia
Boidinia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Russulaceae. The genus is widely distributed, and contains 10 species. Boidinia was described in 1982 with the type species Boidinia furfuracea. It is named in honor of French mycologist Jacques Boidin.
N. Maekawa wrote: "The genus Boidinia is a satellite genus of Gloeocystidiellum and differs from the latter in forming loose texture in subiculum and globose, echinulate to verrucose basidiospores."
Boidinia is probably not monophyletic and needs taxonomical redefinition.
Species
The Catalogue of Life, on September 2025, recognizes 12 species of Boidinia:- Boidinia aculeata E. Larss. & K.H. Larss.
- Boidinia borbonica Boidin, Lanq. & Gilles
- Boidinia cana Sheng H. Wu
- Boidinia dendrophysata Boidin & Gilles
- Boidinia donkii Sheng H. Wu & P.K. Buchanan
- Boidinia furfuracea Stalpers & Hjortstam
- Boidinia lacticolor Hjortstam & Ryvarden
- Boidinia luteola Sheng H. Wu
- Boidinia macrospora Sheng H. Wu
- Boidinia parva Ghob.-Nejh., S.L. Liu, Y.C. Dai & Langer
- Boidinia peroxydata Hjortstam & Ryvarden
- Boidinia propinqua Hjortstam & Ryvarden