 Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Poriales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Polyporus badius | |||
| Author： |
Polyporus badius (Pers.:S.F.Gray) Schw., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II 4: 155. 1832. |
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| Description： |
Basidiocarp annual, laterally to centrally stipitate; solitary or clustered; pileus circular or flabelliform, up to 10 cm wide; upper surface light chestnut brown to dark blackish brown, often darker in the center, azonate, glabrous, smooth or rugose on drying; pore surface white to pale buff, pores circular to angular 5-8 per mm; context pale buff, azonate, corky, up to 1.2 cm thick; tube layer white when young, to slightly darker than context, up to 1 mm thick, decurrent on stipe; stipe black and minutely tomentose at base, chestnut brown and glabrous at apex, up to 5 mm thick. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae thin-walled, with simple-septate 3-5 μm in diam, inconspicuous in mature specimens; contextual skeletal hyphae thick-walled, aseptate, with occasional branching. Basidiospores cylindric, hyaline, smooth, IKI-, 7.5-9 × 3.3-5 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taoyuan : La-la-shan, alt. 1700 m, on trunk of hardwood, Jan 1994, TFRI 542. |
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| Habitat： |
Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
Temperate species in Europe, North America and Asia. |
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| References： |
Chang, TT. 1995. |
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| Provided： |
T. T. Chang |
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| Note： |
The fungus differs from the other species in the genus with a dark stipe by lacking clamps of generative hyphae. | |||