Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Polyporales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Hyphodontia aspera
 
   
   
 Author:

Grandinia aspera Fr., Hym. Eur. p. 627. 1874.

Odontia arquta subsp. aspera 1928. (Fr.) Bourd. et Galz., Hym. Fr., p. 428. 1928.

Hyphodontia aspera (Fr.) J. Erikss., Symb. Bot. Ups. 16: 104. 1958.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Macroscopic characters: Basidiocarps resupinate, effused, forming linear area or irregularly orbicular area, with many small isolated rounded islands, adnate, 80–800 μm thick, 1.2 × 8 cm, ceraceous or membranaceous, uneven, odontoid, finely cracked, more or less in crashed manners, marguerite yellow, but cream buff at the center, not changing color in 5% KOH; margins thining out; floccose, white or concolorous; spines odontoid, conical, abruptly sharp at apex, with fimbriate tips, 60 × 70 μm, 6–9 per mm. Microscopic characters: Basal layer of context almost none; the basal part of the intermediate layer 7–200 μm thick, composed of very loosely interwoven and more or less parallel hyphae; the upper part of the intermediate layer more than 100 μm thick, sometimes up to 700 μm thick, composed of very longitudinally interwoven dense hyphae, hyphae 2–3 μm wide, distinctive, with clamp connections, smooth, thin-walled, sometimes swelling at the end of short lateral hyphae; cystidia cylindrical, septate or aseptate, slightly thick-walled, rounded at apex, 2.5–3 μm wide, confined to the tips of spines forming fimbriate manner, arising from the specialized terminal hyphae of trama of spines; hymenium 15 μm thick, with basidia arranged in palisade; young basidia cylindrical, 3 × 15 μm; basidiospores ellip-tical, 3 × 5 μm, smooth, thin-walled, non-amyloid.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taipei Hsien, Pinlin Hsiang, from Orchid Valley to Mt. Suchuanglo, on the road side, under the hardwood forests, alt. 400–500 m, July 23, 1975, S.-H. Lin (NTU-2889), July 24, 1975, S.-H. Lin (NTU-3509).

 
 
 
 Habitat: On dead twigs of the broad-leaved trees.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Europe, North America, USSR, Japan, and Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Lin, SH. and Chen, ZC. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Lin

 
 
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