Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Poriales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Tyromyces incarnatus
 
   
   
 Author:

Tyromyces incarnatus Imazeki, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. 6. 1943.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp annual, sessile, solitary or imbricate, dimidiate, 3-6 cm in diam and 1-1.5 cm thick. Upper surface pale red to red, becoming whitish red when dry, glabrous, smooth to appressed-fibrillose. Pore surface concolorous, the pores round 3-4 per mm, with thin, entire dissepiments. Context white to whitish red, soft, fibrous, up to 7 mm thick. Tube layer concolorous, up to 4 mm. Hyphal system monomitic, generative hyphae hyaline, thin-walled, with clamps, 3-5 μm, with a basal clamp. Basidiospores ovoid to subglobose, hyaline, smooth, IKI-, 4-5 × 2.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei:Hsihhsien, alt. 900 m, on rotten hardwood, Jul 1992, TFRI 419.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Lignicolous causing white rot of wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, Taiwan

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, TT. 1993b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

T. T. Chang

 
 
 Note: The fungus is characterized by its pale red basidiocarps. It is a rare species.