Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Poriales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Oligoporus guttulatus
 
   
   
 Author:

Oligoporus guttulatus ( Pk.) Gilbn. & Ryv., Mycotaxon 22: 365. 1985.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, sessile or laterally substipitate; pilei solitary or imbricate, dimidiate to flabelliform, applanate, up to 4 × 6 × 2 cm; upper surface white when fresh, drying buff or pale brown, azonate or faintly zonate, glabrous, smooth, pelliculose, often with small, shallow, circular depressions 1-3 mm in diameter; pore surface white to cream, drying pale buff, circular to angular, 4-6 per mm context white to cream, up to 1.2 cm thick; tube layer with a pale greenish tint in fresh specimens, concolorous with the context, up to 4 mm thick. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with clamps, some extremely thick-walled with a narrow, capillary lumen, occasionally nodose-septate, commonly branching opposite the clamp, 4-7(-10) μm in diameter. Basidiospores short-cylindric to oblong, hyaline, smooth, IKI-, 4-5 × 2-2.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung : Chingshan, alt. 2000 m, on basal stem of Pseudotsuga wilsoniana, Sep 1992, TFRI 435.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing brown rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

North America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1995.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: The circular depressions on the pilear surface, the thin, sometimes substipitate basidiocarps are good characteristics.