Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >> Order: Poriales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Rigidoporus lineatus | |||
Author: | Rigidoporus lineatus (Pers.) Ryv., Norw. J. Bot. 19: 236. 1972. |
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Description: | Basidiocarp annual, pileate, seldom resupinate, solitary or imbricate, sessile, substipitate. Pileus dimidiate, flabelliform to spathulate, concentrically zonate-sulcate, pinkish buff to reddish-brown and velutinate, later wood-coloured, darker-brown and glabrous, radially striate. Pore surface bright orange-red, pores round to angular, 6-9 per mm. Tubes darker. Context white to wood-coloured, radially fibrous. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with simple septa, thin-walled, hyaline to golden, up to 8.0 μm wide. Cystidia rare to abundant, club-shaped, 30-210 × 10-20 μm, with thickened walls, smooth or apically encrusted. Basidiospores subglobose to globose, hyaline to yellowish, thin-walled and smooth, 4.5-6 × 4-5 μm, IKI-. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei:Taipei Botanic Garden, on fallen trunk of Pinus sp., Nov 1995, TFRI 678. |
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Habitat: | Lignicolous causing white rot of wood. | |||
Distribution: | Widespread in America, Asia and Africa. |
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References: | Chang, TT and Fu, CS. 1998. |
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Provided: | T. T. Chang |
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Note: | The fungus has encrusted cystidia and slightly larger basidiospores compared to R. microporus. | |||