Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Boletales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Coniophora puteana
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Thelephora puteana Schum.:Fr., Enumerario Plant. Saellandiae 2: 397. 1803.

Coniophora puteana (Schum.:Fr.) P. Karst. in Not. S ?llsk. Fauna Fl. Fenn. F ?rh. II 6: 370. 1868.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp resupinate, up to 500 μm thick. Hymenial surface clay-yellow, smooth, not cracked; margin paler, slightly filamentose. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae uaually simple- septate, occasionally bearing one or more clamped septa. Subiculum fairly loose in texture; Hyphae generally colorless, slightly brownish-tinted near the substratum, 2-4 μm diam., thin-walled. Hymenial layer with dense texture; hyphae colorless. Cystidia lacking. Basidia utriform, 55-75 × 7-9 μm, 4- sterigmate. Basidiospores ellipsoid, pale brown, smooth, thick-walled, 10-15 × 6-8 μm, dextrinoid.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan. Nantou: Hsitou, alt. 1,200 m, on decorticated trunk of Cryptomeria japonica, Wu, 18 Jun 1993, Wu 9306-15 (TNM); on fallen trunk of C. japonica, Wu 9306-30 (TNM); on branch of angiosperm, 27 Jul 1993, Wu 9307-58 (TNM).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Pantemperate - warm-temperate.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. 1993.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： The genus Coniophora causes a brown rot in wood.