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

Oligoporus lowei (Pilat) Gilb. & Ryv., Mycotaxon 22: 364. 1985.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, sessile to effused-reflexed, soft when fresh. Upper surface at first white, then cream to unevenly pale brown. Pore surface white to cream, often drying pale reddish brown, pores angular, 3-4 per mm. Tube layer white. Context very thin, white, fleshy, becoming friable and fragile. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with clamps, 2-4 μm wide, thin to thick-walled, partly swelling in KOH to 6 μm, in the upper context more distinctly thick-walled. Basidia clavate, 4-sterigmate, 15-20 × 5-7 μm, with a basal clamp. Basidiospores allantoid to cylindrical, hyaline, 4.5-5.5 × 1.8-2.2 μm, IKI-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei:Taipei Botanic Garden, alt.<100 m, on fallen trunk of Pinus sp., Nov 1995, TFRI 677.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing brown rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Europe, North America, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang TT and Fu, CS. 1998.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
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