Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Russulales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Conferticium heimii
 
   
   
　Author：

Conferticium heimii (Boidin) Sheng H. Wu, Mycotaxon 58: 22. 1996.

Basionym: Gloeocystidiellum heimii Boid., Cah. Maboké 4: 10. 1966.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate, submembranaceous or membranaceous, 20-55 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface greyish orange to light orange, smooth, not cracked; margin concolorous or paler, rather determinate, arachnoid or sparsely filamentose. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae simple-septate, cyanophilous and dextrinoid. Subiculum uniform, thin and sometimes invisible, with dense texture; hyphae colorless, occasionally glued together, 2-3 μm diam., thin- or slightly thick-walled. Hymenium not thickening or only slightly thickening, perhaps due to the still young stage of the specimen. Gloeocystidia numerous, colorless, cylindrical or clavate, 18-33 × 4-6.5 μm, thin- or slightly thick-walled, slightly SA+, sometimes indistinguishable from basidioles in shape. Basidia clavate, 17-27 × 4.5-6 μm, usually with thickened walls at base, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, verrucose (smooth in KOH), thin-walled, with a distinct apiculus, (5-) 5.3-6.2 (-6.5) × (3.2-) 3.5-4.2 (-4.5) μm, with fairly homogeneous contents, IKI bluish black, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan. Yilan: Fushan Nature Reserve, alt. 600 m, on branch of angiosperm, 3 Sep 1992. Wu 9209-13 (TNM). Republic of Cental Africa. La Maboké: prè M'Baïki, en lissongo, 25 Oct 1967, leg. Boidin, LY 6116 (det. by Boidin as Gloeocystidiellum heimii).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Republic of Central Africa (type locality), Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. 1996.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： This species is similar to C. ravum, but several characteristics can be combined to separate them. Conferticium ravum has larger gloeocystidia which often have a schizopapillate apical constriction. Basidiospores are slightly longer in C. ravum. Moreover, C. ravum is a temperate or temperate - subtropical species, while known collections of C. heimii are from subtropical zones.