 Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Agaricales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Panellus copelandii | |||
| Author： |
Panellus copelandii (Pat.) Burdsall & Miller, Nova Hedwigia Beih. 51: 88. 1975. |
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| Description： |
Basidiocarp annual, up to 5 × 4 × 0.8 mm, laterally stipitate, stipe often somewhat reduce to a tapering base. Pileus round, flabelliform to spathulate, pileus surface glabrous, white pinkish buff to wood brown, usually wrinkled when dry, pore surface white to cream, pore round, angular to irregular, sometimes radially elongated at the margin, small, 3-6 per mm. Hyphal system monomitic, generative hyphae with clamps, up to 3.5 µm diam, much branched coralloid dichophysial hyphae occur along the dissepiments, branching heads covered with minute dichotomously branched projections, both types of hyphae dextrinoid. Acerose basidioles present. Basidiospores cylindrical to ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline and amyloid, 4.2-5.4 × 25-32 µm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Yilan : Fushan, alt. 650m, on fallen trunk, Mar 1994, TFRI 579. |
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| Habitat： |
Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
Pantropical. |
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| References： |
Chang, TT and Fu, CS. 1998. |
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| Provided： |
T. T. Chang |
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| Note： |
The combination of a small basidiocarp and large basidiospores sets this species apart from the others in the genus. | |||