Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Polyporales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Ganoderma limushanense
 
   
   
 Author:

Ganoderma limushanense Zhao & Zhang, Acta Mycol. Sin. 5: 119-122. 1986.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, stipitate or sessile, corky to woody. Pileus suborbicular or dimidiate, sometimes irregular, up to 15 × 12 × 1 cm. Upper surface yellowish brown when dry, non-laccate or slightly laccate, concentrically sulcate. Context brown or dark brown, with black crustaceous layer, 4-8 mm thick. Tubes brown, stuffed with white mycelium, 4-8 mm thick. Pore surface brown to sordid brown, pores suborbicular, 4-6 per mm. Stipe dor-sal-lateral or lateral, up to 3 cm. Pilear crust similar to subanamixoderm. Hyphal system trimitic, generative hyphal hyaline, 2.5-5 µm in diam, skeletal hyphal yellowish brown, thick walled to solid, arboriform, skeletal stalks 2-5 µm in diam, binding hyphal, thick walled to solid, branched, 2-3 µm in diam. Basidiospores 7-9 × 5-6.5 µm, ovoid, ellipsoid, rarely truncate at apex, bitunicate, exospore hyaline, smooth, endospore brownish, echinu-late or indistinct.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Yilan : Fushan, alt. 650 m, on trunk of Fagauae, Aug 1990, TFRI 58; Aug 1991 TFRI 112; Oct 1991, TFRI183.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

China, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1992b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: The fungus is recognized by its basidiospores.