Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Phallales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Hyphodontia formosana
 
   
   
 Author:

Hyphodontia formosana Sheng H. Wu & Burds., Acta Bot. Fennica 142: 91. 1990.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp effuse, ± adnate, loose-membranaceous, soft, porose-reticulate in young parts, 100-200 µm thick in section (aculei excluded). Hymenial surface Pale Olive-Buff, Ivory Yellow, Marguerite Yellow, or whitish, odontioid, not cracked; margin concolorous or paler, thinning, arachnoid-byssoid. Aculei separate or occasionally fused, 7-10 per mm, conical to subulate, 50-150 × 35-70 µm. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae simple-septate. Subiculum indistinctly bi-layered. Basal layer with dense to compact texture, up to ca. 20 µm thick, sometimes indistinct; hyphae horizontal, colorless or subcolorless, sometimes agglutinated. Medullary layer constituting main part of subiculum, with loose texture; hyphae ± vertical, ramified at right angles, colorless or subcolorless, distinct, straight, 2.2-4.8 µm diam., with 0.4-0.8 µm thick walls, sometimes covered with scattered crystals, anastomoses occasional. Hymenial layer with rather dense texture. Trama with denser texture than subiculum; hyphae fairly vertical, slightly projecting and ±encrusted at their aculeal apices. Cystidia variably abundant, immersed or projecting, not encrusted, cylindrical, slightly flexuous, 35-50 × 6.5-10 µm, thin- or slightly thick-walled. Basidia short-clavate or subutriform, 12-20 × 5-7 µm, usually guttulate, with four small sterigmata. Basidiospores broadly ellip-soid, smooth, thin-walled, usually with one to several oil-drops, 5.5-7 × 4-5 µm, IKI-, CB-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Taipei: Sanhsia, on twig of angiosperm, 9 Sep 1988, Wu 880909-85 (H, TNM). Hsinchu: Chienchih Hsiang, Neiwan, alt. 400 m, on twig of angiosperm, 19 Aug 1988, Wu 880819-24 (H, TNM), Wu 880819-27 (holotype: TNM; iso-types: CFMR, H, TAA). Kaohsiung: Liukuei Hsiang, Sanping, alt. 770 m, on fallen twig of angiosperm, 14 Jul 1989, Wu 890714-13 (H, TNM).

 
 
 
 Habitat: null
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
 Note: This species is distinct in having simple-septate hyphae. The cystidia of this species are variably abundant. According to the collection data, H. formosana appears to play an important role in decaying angiosperm debris in subtropical Taiwan.