Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Polyporales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Peniophora magno-cystidia
 
   
   
　Author：

Peniophora magno-cystidia Lin, sp. nov, NTU M.S. Thesis: 1-194. 1976.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Macroscopic characters: Basidiocarps resupinate, widely effused, adnate, up to 1300 μm thick, 7 × 20 cm, ceraceous, even, roughly cracked, farinose, becoming dirty powders and saccador’s umber when decay, pale ochraceous-buff to light ochraceous-buff in dry materi-als, not changing color in 5% KOH; margins thining out, floccose, white or concolorous. Microscopic characters: With the differentiation of basal layer and intermediate layer, thickening of the basidiocarps by repetitive context; basal layer of the context about 400 μm thick, of densely indistinctive and parallel hyphae, reddish brown in phloxine; the interme-diate layer of context 300–500 μm thick, dirty brown in phloxine, composed of densely interwoven gelatinized hyphae, obscure; hyphae 2–2.5 μm wide, thin-walled, gelatinized, smooth, septate, clamp connections not seen; cystidia metuloid, mostly embedded in the intermediate layers of context, arising from the uppermost of the basal layers, rarely found in basal layers, fusiform, acute at apex, broader near base, encrusted or the crystals dissolved in KOH and becoming smooth, with wall up to 5–9 μm thick, not radicate, 25–30 × 173–200 μm, sometimes protruding; basidia and basidiospores not seen.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taipei Hsien, Pinlin Hsiang, from Orchid Valley to Mt. Suchuanglo, on the road side, under the hardwood forests, alt. 500 m, Dec. 7, 1975, S.-H. Lin (Holotype: NTU-3160).
 
 
 
　Habitat： On rough branches of dead broad-leaved trees.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Lin, SH. 1976.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Lin
 
 
　Note： This fungi are established as new to science mainly based on their distinctive strata of context, thickening of basidiocarps by repetitive context, structure and the characters of cys-tidia and strongly gelatinized hyphae, though the basidiospores and basidia are not observed in the current materials.