Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Poriales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Perenniporia nanjenshana
 
   
   
 Author:

Perenniporia nanjenshana T. T. Chang & W. N. Chou, Mycol. Res. 104: 637. 2000.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, sessile, applanate, corky to woody, 3-7 cm wide, 1-2 cm thick, semicircular, dimidiate, flat to convex, as if soaked with some resinous substance. Upper surface glabrous, smooth to warted, at first white to cream, soon covered by a light reddish brown to grey black cuticle starting from the base, not zonate and sulcate. Pore surface cream to light ochraceous or pale straw-coloured. Pores angular to irregular, sometimes lacerated, 1-3mm-1. Hyphal system dimitic, negative in Melzer’s reagent, generative hyphae with clamp connections, hyaline, 1.5-2.5 μm wide, skeletal hyphae dominating in the structure, thick-walled, hyaline to cream, 2-3 μm wide. Basidiospores ovoid to subglobose, hyaline, smooth, dextrinoid, thick-walled, not truncate, 9.5-14 × 6-11 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Pingtung : Nanjenshan, alt. 500 m, on rotten wood, Jun 1997, CWN 2384 ; Apr 1997, CWN 2185; May 1997, CWN 2260.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT and Chou, WN. 2000a.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: Perenniporia nanjenshana is distinguished by the resinous to woody basidiomes and the large ovoid to subglobose, nontruncate dextrinoid basidiospores.