Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Clitopilus hobsonii
 
   
   
 Author:

Basionym: Agaricus hobsonii Berk. & Broome, Outl. Brit. Fung. (London): 138. 1860.

Clitopilus hobsonii (Berk. & Br.) P.D. Ort., Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 43:174. 1960.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 0.3-0.7 cm, fan or heart-shaped, white, tomentous, margin entire. Gills distant of several lengths, white, entire. Spores elliptical, hyaline, with longitudinal ridges, I-, 7-8 × 4-5 μm. Hyphae without clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Meifeng, on rotten wood, 2 Mar. 2001, CWN 04851 (TNM F0014476).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Scattered or gregarious on broad-leaved forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

North America, Europe, North Africa.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Breitenbach, J. and Kranzlin, E. 1995; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
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