Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Panellus orientalis
 
   
   
 Author:

Panellus orientalis (Kobayashi) Corner, Gard. Bull. Sing. 39: 135. 1986.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, up to 15 mm wide, stipitate, pleuropadal, pileus reniform, pileus surface glabrous, chalky white, pale buff to rufous pink, usually wrinkled when dry, pore surface white, pore circular, elliptic to slightly radially elongate, 3-6 per mm. Hyphal system monomitic, generative hyphae with clamps, up to 4.0 µm diam, much branched corolloid dichophysial hyphae occur along the dissepiments, branching heads covered with minute dichotomously branched projections, both types of hyphae dextrinoid. Acerose basidioles present. Basidia clavate, 4-sterigmate, 7-10 × 18-36 µm, dextrinoid. Basidiospores subglobose to pip-shaped, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline and amyloid, 6.0-9.5 × 6-8.5 µm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Yilan : Fushan, alt. 650m, on fallen truck, Nov 1994, TFRI 662.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Pantropical.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT and Fu, SS. 1998.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang.

 
 
 Note: The fungus is recognized by its small subglobose basidiospores measuring 6-9.5 × 6-8.5 µm.