Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Phallales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Phellinus cyclobalanopsis
 
   
   
 Author:

Phellinus cyclobalanopsis T. T. Chang & W. N. Chou, Mycologia 92: 802. 2000.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp perennial, resupinate, effused up to 2 cm wide, woody hard, readily separable from substrate, light in weight; upper surface tomentose, yellowish brown to dark brown, concentrically zonate and sulcate; Pores rounded, angular to hexagonal, 0.2-0.5 mm diam; pore surface dark yellowish brown to chocolate brown, glancing. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae simple septate, hyaline to light brown, up to 2.5 µm wide; skeletal hy-phae dominating in the structure, thick-walled, brown to dark brown, up to 3.0 µm. Basidiospores ellipsoid to slightly allantoid, smooth, yellow to brown, 5.2-6.5 × 3-3.5 µm , IKI-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung : Chicar, alt. 2000 m, on rotten wood, Nov 1998, TFRI 884 ; Dec 1998, TFRI 906.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT and Chou, WN.2000b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: Phellinus cyclobalanopsis is distinguished by the resupinate to effused-reflexed basidiomes and the brownish, ellipsoid to slightly reniform basidiospores.