Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Russulales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Bondarzewia montana
 
   
   
 Author:

Bondarzewia montana (Quél.) Sing., Rev. Mycol. 5: 4. 1940.

   
 
 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

North America, Europe, temperate Asia.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1992a; Nunez, M and Ryvarden, L. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: The fungus is characterized by the amyloid, crested basidiospores.