 Description： |
Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate, membranaceous, 30-250 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface grayish brown, smooth, cracked when old; margin fairly determinate or slightly thinning, concolorous. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae simple-septate. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of a basal layer, with compact texture; hyphae brownish, mainly horizonal, sometimes glued together, 2-4 μm diam, with 0.5-1 μm thick walls. Hymenium thickening. Hymenial layer with compact texture; hyphae brownish-tinted, mainly vertical, thin-walled. Lamprocystidia numerous, immersed or emergent, overlapping in thicken hymenial layer, heavily encrusted, conical or subulate, yellow to brown, 25-40 × 8-11 μm (encrustation included), with 1.5-3 μm thick walls. Gloeocystidia colorless, cylindrical, usually tapering toward apices, 25-45 × 4-7 μm, thin- to slightly thick-walled, SA-. Basidia subclavate, 18-30 × 4.5-6 μm, usually thick-walled toward base, usually 2-sterigmate, sometimes 3- or 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores ellipsoid, adaxially slightly concave, smooth, thin-walled, 6-8.5 × 3.2-4.2 μm, IKI-, CB-. |
| Specimens： |
Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University, on branch of Elaeocarpus sylvestris, 23 Jun 1988, Wu 880623 (TNM); on stem of living Euphorbia pulcherrima, 13 Oct 1988, Wu 881013-3 (TNM); on branch of Ligustrum japonicum, 2 Dec 1990, Wu 901202 (TNM). Tainan: Kuantsilin, alt. 500 m, on branch of living E. pulcherrima, 20 Sep 1991, Wu 910920-5 (TNM). Kaohsiung: Liukuei, Shanping, alt. 750 m, on branch of angiosperm, 7 Nov 1991, Wu 911107-46 (TNM). |
| Distribution： |
Nepal (type locality), Gabon, Reunion Island, Singapore (Boidin et al., 1991), Taiwan. |
Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Russulales