Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >> Order: Russulales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Bondarzewia montana | |||
Author: | Bondarzewia montana (Quél.) Sing., Rev. Mycol. 5: 4. 1940. |
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Description: | Basidiocarp annual, centrally to laterally stipitate, pilei solitary or several on a branched stipe, flabelliform, up to 8 cm wide and 1 cm thick, upper surface purplish brown, azonate, scurfy to finely tomentose, drying rugose, margin concolorous. Pore surface cream colored, the pores angular, 1-3 per mm, with thin dissepiments that become lacerate. Context cream colored, up to 1 cm thick. Tube layer concolourous with context, up to 2 mm thick, often decurrent on stipe almost to ground level, odor very pleasant. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae thin-walled, simple-septate, with rare branching, 4-8 μm in diam, skeletal hyphae thick-walled, aseptate, with infrequent branching, 3-8 μm in diam. Basidiospores globose to subglobose, hyaline, ornamented with irregularly arranged, short, strongly amyloid ridges, 6-8 × 5-7 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Nantou : Nengkao, alt. 2750m, on decayed coniferous wood, Sep 1991, TFRI82. |
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Habitat: | Lignicolous. | |||
Distribution: | North America, Europe, temperate Asia. |
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References: | Chang, TT. 1992a; Nunez, M and Ryvarden, L. 2000. |
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Provided: | T. T. Chang |
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Note: | The fungus is characterized by the amyloid, crested basidiospores. | |||