 Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Poriales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Antrodia heteromorpha | |||
| Author： |
Antrodia heteromorpha (Fr.) Donk, Persoonia 4: 339. 1961. |
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| Description： |
Basidiocarp annual, sessile to effused-reflexed, more commonly imbricate to nodulose when growing on stumps and standing trunks, individual pilei up to 2 cm wide and 3 cm long, corky and tough,adnate, margin white and distinct, often narrow, upper surface at first white to cream, weathering to pale sordid brown, glabrous, zonate,either smooth or sulcate. Pore surface white to cream or corkcolored to buff, pores angular to sinuous or daedaleoid, 1-2 per mm. Dissepiments thick, split by age and becoming dentate. Context thin and white. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae, thin to thick-walled with abundant clamps, 2-4 μm wide, skeletal hyphae thick-walled to semisolid, straight to sinuous and with occasional dichotomous branching, 3-7 μm wide. Basidiospores cylindrical to oblong ellipsoid, 9-14 × 5-7 μm, often slightly cruved near the apiculus, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled, IKI-. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taichung : Lileng, alt. 2000 m, on decayed stem of Tsuga formosana Hay., Aug 1991, TFRI 72. |
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| Habitat： |
Lignicolous causing brown rot of wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
Widely distributed in the boreal coniferous forests. |
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| References： |
Chang, TT. 1994a. |
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| Provided： |
T. T. Chang |
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| Note： |
The fungus is recognized by its pileate, effused-reflexed or resupinate basidiocarps with angular to sinuous or daedaloid pores. | |||