Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Russulales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Peniophora reidii
 
   
   
 Author:

Peniophora reidii Boidin & Lanquetin, Trans. British Mycol. Soc. 81: 279. 1983.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate, membranaceous, 50-100 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface brownish gray, smooth, minutely cracked; margin thinning, concolorous or brownish. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae simple-septate. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of a basal layer, with compact texture; hyphae brownish, mainly horizonal, glued together, 2-4 μm diam, ± thick-walled. Hymenium ± thickening. Hymenial layer with compact texture; hyphae brownish or yellowish, mainly vertical, slightly thick-walled. Lamprocystidia immersed or emergent, heavily encrusted, conical or subulate, usually brown, 25-45 × 9-15 μm (encrustation included), with 1-2.5 μm thick walls. Gloeocystidia not very common, colorless or slightly brown, subulate or conical, with brownish oily contents, 20-45 × 5-8 μm, slightly thick-walled toward base, SA-. Basidia subclavate, 25-38 × 5-6 μm, usually with thickened walls toward base, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores narrowly ellipsoid or cylindrical, adaxially slightly concave, smooth, thin-walled, 8.3-10.5 × 3-4.6 μm, IKI-, CB-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Taipei: Hsintien - Pinglin, Wenshan Botanical Garden, alt. 300 m, on branch of Paulownia fortunei, 27 Apr 1991, (Wu 910427-6). Yangminshan, alt. 600 m, on branch of angiosperm, 24 Jul 1991, (Wu 910724-11). Chiayi: Yushan National Park, Nanhsilintao, alt. 2,200 m, on branch of angiosperm, 14 Oct 1993, (Wu 9310-115).

 
 
 
 Habitat: null
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Great Britain (type locality), France, Spain (Boidin and Lanquetin, 1983a), and Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. 2003.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
 Note: This species is very close to P. borbonica, and their similarities are mentioned above.