Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Russulales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Peniophora scintillans
 
   
   
　Author：

Peniophora scintillans G.H. Cunn., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 83: 268. 1955.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate, membranaceous, 50-150 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface grayish yellow or grayish pink, smooth, sometimes cracked; margin fairly determinate, concolorous. Hyphal system essentially monomitic, some specimens with quasi-binding hyphae near substratum; generative hyphae nodose-septate. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of a fairly thin basal layer, with compact texture; generative hyphae colorless or yellowish, glued together, 2-4 μm diam., usually slightly thick-walled; quasi-binding hyphae rarely present near substratum, colorless or yellowish, 0.5-1.5 μm diam. Hymenium thickening, with compact texture; hyphae colorless, mainly vertical, thin-walled, dextrinoid. Lamprocystidia numerous, immersed or emergent, overlapping in subhymenium, heavily encrusted, conical, colorless, slightly yellow or rarely slightly brown, 25-45 × 8-12 μm (encrustation included), with 1-2.5 μm thick walls. Gloeocystidia fairly few, colorless, cylindrical, tapering to narrow apices, 25-50 × 6-10 μm, thin-walled, SA-. Basidia subclavate, 25-33 × 5-6 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, (5-) 5.7-7 (-7.5) × 3.7-4.8 μm, IKI-, CB-.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan. Taipei: Kungliao, alt. 200 m, on branch of Lagerstroemia subcostata, 25 Nov 1990, Wu 901125-16 (TNM). Yangminshan, alt. 600 m, on branch of angiosperm, 13 Dec 1990, Wu 901213-13 (TNM). Nantou: Sun-Moon Lake, on branch of angiosperm, alt. 750 m, 26 Oct 1988, Wu 881026-21 (TNM). Taichung: Chiapaotai, alt. 900 m, on branch of angiosperm, 6 Dec 1991, Wu 911206-14 (TNM). Pintung: Kengting National Park, Changle, alt. 250 m, on branch of angiosperm, 20 Feb 1992, Wu 9202-36 (TNM).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

New Zealand (type locality), Madagascar, Réunion, and Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. 2002.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： P. scintillans has larger basidiospores than P. ovalispora. Cunningham (1963) reported spores for P. scintillans to be 6-7 × 3.5-4 μm. My measurements from the type specimen are similar, 6-7.5 × 3.5-4.5 μm. Stalpers and Buchanan (1991), based on the same specimen, found spores sizes to be 5.5-8 × 3.5-4.5 (-5) μm. The measurement provided by Boidin et al. (1991) for this species is slightly smaller (4.5-6 (-7) × 3.2-4.2 μm).