Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Poriales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Gloeophyllum sepiarum
 
   
   
 Author:

Gloeophyllum sepiarum (Fr.) Karst., Finl. Hattsv. 2: 80. 1879.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, pileate, broadly sessile, dimidiate or rosette shaped, often imbricate in clusters from a common base, up to 8 cm wide, 14 cm long and 6-8 mm thick at the base of the pileus, tough and flexible. Upper surface first finely bright yellowish brown, then darker reddish brown and finally grayish to black. Hymenophore lamellate with anastomosing, dense lamellae, 10-15 per cm behind the margin, more rarely mixed with poroid areas with rounded to irregular, sinuous, radially elongated pores, about 1-2 per mm. Hyphal system trimitic, generative hyphae thin to thick walled and with clamps, 2.5-4 μm in diam, skeletal hyphae golden brown, thick-walled, up to 7 μm in diam, binding hyphae few, light golden brown, up to 4.5 μm in diam. Cystidia abundant in the hymenium, subulate to obtuse, thin to thick-walled by age, 25-95 × 3-7 μm, usually smooth, more rarely with a small crown of crystals. Basidiospores cylindrical, 9-13 × 3-5 μm, hyaline, smooth, IKI-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou : Lileng, alt. 2300 m, on dead stem of Tsuga sp., Aug 1991, TFRI 73.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing brown rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Cosmopolitan in the boreal zone.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1992b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: Seeing G. abietinum.