Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >> Order: Poriales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Trametes pubescens | |||
Author: | Trametes pubescens (Schum. : Fr.) Pilát, Atl. Champ. Europ. 3: 268. 1939. |
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Description: | Basidiocarp annual, sessile or effused-reflexed, up to 8 cm wide, dimidiate, often in imbricate clusters, thin, coriaceous. Upper surface tomentose to finely pubescent or almost glabrous, cream color to warm buff, azonate or faintly zonate. Pore surface cream color to light ochraceous buff, the pores angular, 3-5 per mm. Context white to cream, tough-fibrous, up to 5 mm thick. Tube layer cream colored to pale buff, up to 4 mm thick. Hyphal system trimitic, generative hyphae thin-walled, rarely branched, with clamps, 2-3 μm in diam, skeletal hyphae thick-walled, with occasional branching, 5-10 μm in diam, binding hyphae thick-walled, nonseptate, much branched, 1.5-3 μm in diam, hyphal pegs usually present. Basidiospores cylindric, slightly curved, hyaline, smooth, IKI-, 5-7 × 1.5-2 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Hualien : Chilai, alt. 800 m, on rotten hardwood, Sep 1991, TFRI 87, TFRI 88, TFRI92. |
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Habitat: | Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
Distribution: | Circumpolar in the boreal-temperate zone. |
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References: | Chang, TT. 1992b; Nunez, M and Ryvarden, L. 2000. |
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Provided: | T. T. Chang |
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Note: | The uniformly cream to buff, azonate and tomentose pileus, and stow-coloured pore surface distinguish basidiocarps of T. pubescens from other species in the genus. | |||