 Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Poriales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Lenzites betulina | |||
| Author： |
Lenzites betulina (Fr.) Fr., Epicr. p. 405. 1838. |
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| Description： |
Basidiocarp annual, pileate, dimidiate to semicircular 1-5 × 2-8 × 0.3-1.0 cm, margin even to lobed or incised, corky and coriaceous. Upper surface tomentose to hispid in concentric, partly sulcate zones, first white, later grayish to cream. Hymenophore lenzitoid with thin radial lamellae, first white, later cream to ochraceous. Context thin, 1-2 mm thick, fibrous and white. Hyphal system trimitic, generative hyphae hyaline and with clamps, thick-walled to thin-walled and up to 5 μm wide, skeletal hyphae solid to thick-walled, 3-7 μm wide, binding hyphae, hyaline, thick-walled to solid, tortuous and much branched, up to 10 μm wide. Basidiospores cylindrical, often slightly bent, hyaline, thin-walled and IKI-, 5-6 × 2-3 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou : Tunyuang, alt. 2000 m, on decayed hardwood, Sep 199, TFRI 66, TFRI 99. |
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| Habitat： |
Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
Cosmopolitan. |
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| References： |
Chang, TT. 1992a; Nunez, M and Ryvarden, L. 2000. |
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| Provided： |
T. T. Chang |
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| Note： |
The fungus is easy to recognize because of the hirsute to tomentose zonate pileus and the lamellate hymenophore. | |||