Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Polyporales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Antrodia xantha
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Polyporus xanthus Fr., Syst. Mycol. 1: 379. 1821..

Antrodia xantha (Fr.) Ryvarden, Norw. J. Bot. 20: 8. 1973..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, fairly separable, bitter in taste. Context up to ca. 400 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface pale cream to pale straw-colored, poroid, cracked; margin thinning, white, slightly byssoid. Pores angular, 5-7 per mm; tubes up to 1.5 mm deep. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae nodose-septate. Context fairly homogeneous, with somewhat loose texture. Contextual generative hyphae colorless, 1.5-3 μm diam., thin-walled; skeletal hyphae dominant in context, rarely branched, colorless, 2-3.5 μm diam. Trama with dense texture. Subhymenium not thickening. Cystidioles present, apically pointed, 10-14 × 3-4 μm, thin-walled. Basidia clavate, 10-15 × 4-5 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores allantoid, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, 4.3-5.3 × 1.2-1.5 μm, IKI–, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan. Nantou: Yuanfeng, 2,800 m alt., on fallen trunk, 20 Sep 1993, Wu 9309-7 (TNM); Yushan National Park, Nanshilintao, 1,950 m alt., on branch of Chamaecyparis formosensis, 13 Oct 1993, Wu 9310-43 (TNM).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Pantemperate.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. 1996.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： null