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

Inonotus fushanus T. T. Chang, Mycol. Res. 101: 1004. 1997.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, sessile to laterally stipitate, solitary, ungulate, dimidiate to reniform or subcircular, ≦ 10 cm wide and 4 cm thick, at first soft, eventually more fibrous to chalky in old specimens; upper surface yellow to yellowish brown, glabrous, often zonate, sometimes radially rimose, margin rounded, concolorous; pore surface at first buff, becoming dark cinnamon-brown, glancing, rough, the pores circular to irregular, 1-3 mm. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae thin- to thick-walled, hyaline, pale yellow to brown, simple-septate, 5-12 µm wide. Basidia clavate, 4-sterigmate, hyaline, 5-8 × 15-20 µm, simple septate at the base. Basidiospores oblong-ellipsoid to cylindrical, usually bent on one side, brownish, smooth, thick-walled, IKI-, 3-4 × 6.5-8.0 µm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Yilan : Fushan, alt. 650 m, on stem of Quercus longinus Hay., Mar 1992, TFRI 264.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1997.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: Inonotus fushanus is distinguished by the sessile to laterally stipitate, ungulate, dimidiate to reniform, fibrous to chalky basidiomes, the brownish, oblong-ellipsoid basidiospores and lack of setae.