Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Phallales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Ramaricium polyporoideum
 
   
   
　Author：

Ramaricium polyporoideum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Ginns, Bot. Notiser 132: 98. 1979..

Basionym: Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Grevillea 1(12): 177. 1873..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp effuse, loosely attached, pellicular, 300-450 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface pale buff in color, smooth, occasionally cracked; margin white, with immature zone, byssoid, sometimes with marginal cordons. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae nodose-septate. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of medullary layer, with rather loose texture; hyphae oriented variously, colorless or slightly yellow, distinct, fairly straight, outer surfaces spinulate, 1.7-4 μm diam., with thin to ca. 0.8 μm thick walls. Hyphae of wide and thick walls usually septate distantly. Granular crystals scattered in the subiculum. Subhymenium somewhat thickening, differentiated from subiculum, with dense texture. Cystidia lacking. Basidia consisting of lateral branch and thus pleural-like in appearance, short-cylindrical and median- constricted below the lateral branch, with stalked bases, usually spinulate basally, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores yellow, broadly ellipsoid, spinulate, slightly thick-walled, 6.5-8.5 (-9) × 4.5-6 μm (spinules excluded), IKI－ or perhaps slightly IKI yellowish brown, CBor perhaps slightly CB＋.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan: Nantou: Lienhuachih, alt. 700 m, on fallen branch of angiosperm, 19 Jun 1991, Wu 910619-1, Wu 910619-61 (TNM).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Canada, U.S.A., Brazil (Ginns 1979), Tanzania (Hjortstam 1987), Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. 1991.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： Characteristics of the examined specimens from Taiwan fairly correspond to those of the foreign collections described previously by other mycologists. The only difference is that the conspicuous cyanophily reactions from the spinules (or warts) of both hyphal walls and sporal walls are not detectable, as indicated by J?lich (1974) and Ginns (1979). Hjortstam (1987) also noted that the cyanophilous reaction was not observed in the basidia, according to his study of Tanzanian specimens.