 Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Poriales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Grifola rosularis | |||
| Author： |
Grifola rosularis Cunn., N. Z. D. S. I. R. Bull. 164: 90. 1965. |
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| Description： |
Basidiocarp annual, brittle, compound, rosulate, of numerous pilei united to a common base. Pilei simple or branched, spatulate, digitate, or urceolate, 2-8 cm wide, 1-5mm thick, attached by a broad base; pileus surface cream, becoming alutaceous, irregular, radiately sulcate, finely tomentose; margin reddish-brown, or concolorous, acute, or rounded, horny, lobed or crenate; hymenial surface decurrent, cream or alutaceous. Pores straw color, 4-5 per mm, up to 1.5 mm deep. Context straw color, 1-2mm thick, of radiately arranged mainly parallel hyphae. Hyphal system monomitic, generative hyphae 6-8 μm in diam, septate, branched, with large clamp connections. Basidiospores broadly obovate to tear shaped, 4.5-7.0 × 3.5-4 μm, smooth, hyaline, IKI-. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou:Nengkao, alt. 2,000 m, on stem of Elaeocarpus japonicus Sieb et Zucc., Sep 1991, TFRI83. Hsinchu:Kuanwu, alt. 2,000 m, on stem of E. japonicus, Jan 1992, TFRI189. |
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| Habitat： |
Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
New Zealand, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Chang, TT. 1994b. |
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| Provided： |
T. T. Chang. |
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| Note： |
The brittle, compound, rosulate and numerous pilei from a common base make the species distinctive in the field. | |||