Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >> Order: Poriales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Coriolopsis sanguinaria | |||
Author: | Coriolopsis sanguinaria (K1.) Teng, True fungi of China p.760. 1964. |
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Description: | Basidiocarp annual to perennial, pileate to resupinate, solitary to densely imbricate or often, as several pilei, more or less fused along the upper edge of a widely effused fruitbody, single pileus up to 5 cm wide and 8 cm long, 2-4 mm thick. Pileus glabrous, rarely smooth, finely warted, azonate, first ochraceous then evenly cinnamon to yellowish-brown, with age a reddish cuticle, in old specimens this cuticle may stain a chestnut or bay. Pore surface applanate ochraceous, cinnamon to deep fulvous. Pores round to angular, 5-8 per mm, tubes up to 4 mm long, concolorous with pore surface. Hyphal system trimitic, generative hyphae with clamps, hyaline to light yellow, thin-walled, 2-3 μm in diam, skeletal hyphae thick-walled but always with a distinct lumen, golden-yellow to brown, 2-8 μm in diam, binding hyphae thin to slightly thick-walled, hyaline to yellowish, mostly 2-4 μm wide. Basidiospores oblong ellipsoid to subcylindrical, 4-6 × 1.5-2.5 μm, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth and IKI-. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Yilan : Fushan, alt. 600 m, on stem of hardwood, Jun 1992, TFRI 368. |
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Habitat: | Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
Distribution: | Paleotropical and subtropical East Asia. |
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References: | Chang, TT. 1994a. |
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Provided: | T. T. Chang |
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Note: | The species is recognized by its small pores and cinnamon to yellowish –brown with age a reddish cuticular developing from the base. | |||