Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Agaricales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Panellus pusillus
 
   
   
　Author：

Panellus pusillus (Pers. Ex Lev.) Burdsall & Miller, Nova Hedwigia Beih. 51: 85. 1975.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp annual, up to 6 × 5 × 1 mm, laterally stipitate, stipe often somewhat reduce to a tapering base. Pileus round, flabelliform to spathulate, pileus surface glabrous, usually zonate, white, pinkish buff to cinnamon, usually wrinkled and lacerated when dry, pore surface white to cream, pore round, irregular to daedaloid, sometimes radially elongated in 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 ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline and amyloid, 2.0-2.5 × 4.0-5.0 µm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Yilan : Fushan, alt. 650m, on stem and branch of Daemonorpse margaritae, May 1994, TFRI 601.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Pantropical.
 
 
 
　References：

Chang, TT and Fu, CS. 1998.
   
   
   
　Provided：

T. T. Chang
 
 
　Note： The fungus is distinguished from the other species of the genus by its poroid hymenial surface and small basidiospores measuring 4-5 × 2-2.5 µm.