Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Russulales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Conferticium ravum
 
   
   
 Author:

Basionym: Corticium ravum Burt, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 13: 251. 1926.

Conferticium ravum (Burt) Ginns & Freeman, Biblioth. Mycol. 157: 31. 1994.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate, membranaceous, 40-120 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface brownish orange to greyish orange, smooth, cracked; margin rather determinate, paler. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae simple-septate, cyanophilous and dextrinoid. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of basal layer, with compact texture; hyphae colorless or somewhat yellow, horizontal, usually glued together and indistinct, 2-3 μm diam., with thin or thickened walls. Hymenium thickening, differentiated from subiculum, with compact texture; hyphae mainly vertical, somewhat yellow, glued together and indistinct, ca. 2 μm diam., with thickened walls. Gloeocystidia emergent or immersed, colorless or yellowish, cylindrical or ±fusiform, quite often apically with a schizopapillate constriction, 30-100 × 5-10 μm, with thin or slightly thickened walls, SA+. Basidia clavate, 20-24 × 5-6 μm, with thickened walls at least for the basal parts, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores ellipsoid, aculeate-verrucose (smooth in KOH), thin-walled, with a distinct apiculus, (5.8-) 6-7.2 (-8) ×3.6-4.3 μm, IKI bluish black, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Nantou: Tungpu, alt. 1,300 m, on branch of angiosperm, 8 Oct 1992, Wu 9210-97 (TNM), Wu 9210-107 (TNM).

 
 
 
 Habitat: null
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Pantemperate and subtropical.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. 1996.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
 Note: Conferticium ravum was well known as C. karstenii untill Ginns (1992) found that Corticium ravum Burt is conspecific with C. karstenii, and the former has priority.