Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Russulales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Gloeocystidiellum porosum
 
   
   
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Basionym: Corticium porosum Berk. & M.A. Curtis in Berk. & Br., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 5, 3: 211. 1879.

Gloeocystidiellum porosum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Donk, Nederl. Mycol. Ver. Med. 18-20: 156. 1931.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate, membranaceous, 70-200 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface pale yellow to light yellow, smooth or slightly tuberculate, extensively cracked; margin thinning, paler, arachnoid-pruinose. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae nodose-septate. Subiculum bi-layered, composed of basal layer and medullary layer. Basal layer with compact texture, up to ca. 20 μm thick, sometimes indistinct; hyphae colorless, ±glued together, 2-3 μm diam., thin-walled. Medullary layer with fairly loose texture; hyphae colorless, variously oriented, 2-3 μm diam., thin-walled. Hymenium thickening, not clearly differentiated from medullary layer, with dense texture; hyphae ± vertical, much branched, colorless, slightly narrower than those of subiculum, thin-walled. Gloeocystidia numerous, mostly immersed, cylindrical, sometimes slightly flexuous, colorless or subcolorless, 40-90 × 8-15 μm, walls up to ca. 1.2 μm thick, SA+. Basidia narrowly clavate, 20-30 × 4-5 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, verrucose (smooth in KOH), thin-walled, (4-) 4.3-5 (-5.2) × 2.8-3.2 μm, IKI bluish black, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Nantou: Pilu, alt. 2,000 m, on branch of angiosperm, 6 Dec 1991, Wu 911206-1 (TNM); on branch of Alnus formosana, 6 Dec 1991, Wu 911206-12 (TNM). Yushan National Park, Nanshilindao, alt. 1,950 m, on branch of angiosperm, 13 Oct 1993, Wu 9310-51 (TNM); 3 May 1994, Wu 9405-49 (TNM); alt. 2,200 m, on branch of angiosperm, 14 Oct 1993, Wu 9310-76 (TNM).

 
 
 
 Habitat: null
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Pantemperate.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. 1996.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
 Note: This species is widely distributed in temperate regions of the world. According to Nakasone (1982), the closely related species G. clavuligerum (Höhn. & Litsch.) Nakas., has broader basidiospores and shorter gloeocystidia which are apically constricted.