Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Poriales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Trichaptum fusco-violaceum
 
   
   
　Author：

Trichaptum fusco-violaceum (Ehrenb.:Fr.) Ryv., Norw. J. Bot. 19: 237. 1972.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp annual, usually effused-reflexed. Pileus single or imbricate, often laterally fused, up to 1.5 × 5 × 0.3 cm, upper surface white to gray, tomentose to slightly hirsute, azonate, margin white to pale brown; hymenophore with radially elongated and lacerate, short lamellae, along the margin irregular before a splitting occurs as the walls develop into teeth, bright purplish when fresh, fading to ochraceous or pale brown by age or drying, core of teeth pale brown and dense continuing as a dense zone between context and the teeth; context less than 1 mm thick. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae thin-walled, hyaline, rarely branched, with clamps, 2-4 μm diam; skeletal hyphae thick-walled, hyaline, with rare branching, nonseptate, 2.5-6 μm, with a basal clamp. Basidiospores cylindric, slightly curved, hyaline, smooth, 6-8 × 2.5-3 μm, IKI-
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Kaohsiung : Liukuei, alt. 850 m, on fallen trunk of Taxus mairei, Nov 1996, TFRI 782.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Circumglobal in the Northern Temperate Zone.
 
 
 
　References：

Chang, TT and Fu. CS. 1998.
   
   
   
　Provided：

T. T. Chang
 
 
　Note： This species is separated from T. abietinum only the hydroid hymenophore.