Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Poriales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Junghuhnia nitida
 
   
   
 Author:

Junghuhnia nitida (Fr.) Ryv., Persoonia 7: 18. 1972.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, resupinate, effused up to 3cm, tough-fibrous, drying brittle, pore surface varying greatly in color from ochraceous buff to pinkish cinnamon, the pores angular, 5-7 per mm, with thin entire dissepiments, subiculum cream colored to pale pinkish buff, fibrous, up to lmm thick. Hyphal system dimitic, subicular generative hyphae thin-walled, with clamps, rarely branched, 2-4 μm in diam, subicular skeletal hyphae thick-walled, hyaline, nonseptate, rarely branched, 2-4 μm in diam, tramal hyphae similar. Cystidia abundant and conspicuous, thick-walled, cylindric to clavate, heavily incrusted, 35-80 × 3-18 μm, completely imbedded or projecting to 25 μm. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, hyaline, smooth, IKI-, 4-4.5 × 2-2.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantau:Tungpu, alt. 400 m, on branch of hardwood, Nov 1993, TFRI 514.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Cosmopolitan species.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1994b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: The pinkish cinnamon, annual, resupinate basidiocarps with abundant cystidia distinguish the species.