Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Agaricales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Termitomyces albuminosus
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Agaricus albuminosus Berk., Lond. J. Bot. 6:482. 1847.

Termitomyces albuminosus (Berk.) Heim, Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. Fr. 64:69-72. 1941.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Pileus 5-11 cm, flat, acutely umbonate, pale brown to brown, glabrous, cracked, striate. Gills free, crowded of several lengths, white to pale brown. Stipe central, 7-16 × 1.2-1.5 cm, solid, white, glabrous, base enlarged with black brown rhizomorphs. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 7-10 × 4-5 μm. Cystidia broadly clavate. Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung: National Museum of Natural Science, on soil, 23 Apr. 1998, CWN 03112 (TNM F0010923).
 
 
 
　Habitat： On termite nests in broad-leaved forest.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Asia.
 
 
 
　References：

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. N. Chou
 
 
　Note： It is edible.