Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Phallales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Inonotus chilanshanus
 
   
   
 Author:

Inonotus chilanshanus T. T. Chang & W. N. Chou, Mycologia 92: 801. 2000.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, effused-reflexed to pileate, sessile to dimidiate, single to imbricate, up to 13 cm wide × 0.6 cm thick, fibrous to chalky, light in weight; upper surface tomentose, velutinate to glabrous, brown to chocolate brown, concentrically zonate and sulcate; pileate crust paper-like, readily separable and broken from context. Pores angular to hexagonal, 0.2-0.33 mm diam; pore surface chocolate brown to dark brown, glancing. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae simple septate, hyaline to yellowish brown, up to 5.0 µm wide. Hymenial setae thick-walled, brown, ventricose, straight, 11-20 × 5.5-10 µm. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 3.5-4.5 × 2.5-3.5 µm, IKI-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Ilan : Chilanshan, alt. 1800 m, on rotten stem of Illicium arborescens, Jun 1992, TFRI 341 ; TFRI 342.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT and Chou, WN.2000b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T.T. Chang

 
 
 Note: The effused-reflexed to pileate basidiomes, the straight ventricose hymenial setae, and the relatively small hyaline broadly ellipsoid basidiospores are diagnostic characteristics of I. chilanshanus.