Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Stereales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cymatoderma lamellatum
 
   
   
 Author:

Cymatoderma lamellatum (Berk. & Curt.) Reid, Kew Bull. 10: 631. 1956.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp coriaceous, pseudoinfundibuliform or infundibuliform, usually with a well developed pseudocentral stipe which is covered by a thick felt-like tomentum. Pileus up to 20 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick, covered a thick felt-like tomentum, pale grey to fawn. Stipe up to 5 cm long and 2 cm wide, covered by a thick pale grey to fawn felt-like tomentum. Context white to pale grey, up to 1-2 mm thick. Hymenial surface white, pale grey to fawn, and ornamented with broad, obtuse, radiating folds which bear scanty warts or spines. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae thin to thick walled, up to 6 μm in diam, with clamps; Skeletal hyphae up 7 μm in diam, tapering to narrow obtuse. Cuticle layer 10 up to 45 μm thick. Cystidia clavate, 45-60 × 12-20 μm. Basidiospores thin-walled, hyaline, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, IKI-, 6-8.5 × 4-5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Hualien:Hsipao, alt. 500 m, on decayed stem of hardwood, Jun 1982, TFRI 384.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Australasia, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1993b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: Hymenial surface white to fawn, and ornamented with broad, obtuse, radiating folds which bear scanty warts or spines charaterizes the fungus.