Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Polyporales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pachykytospora papyracea
 
   
   
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Basionym: Boletus papyraceus Schwein., Natu. Ges. Leipzig Schrift. 1: 99. 1822..

Pachykytospora papyracea (Schwein.) Ryvarden, Norw. J. Bot. 19: 233. 1972..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, adnate. Context up to ca. 400 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface cream or sordid yellow, poroid, rarely cracked; margin rather determinate, whitish, forming an immature zone. Pores ± angular, 3-4 per mm; tubes up to 1 mm deep. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae nodose-septate. Context fairly homogeneous, with moderately dense texture. Contextual generative hyphae colorless, 1-3 μm diam., thin-walled, usually guttulate; skeletal hyphae fairly dominant in context, regularly branched, colorless or slightly yellow, 1.5-3 μm diam., with a distinct lumen, the terminal skeletal hyphae may be as narrow as 0.5-1 μm diam., ± dextrinoid. Trama with fairly dense texture. Subhymenium not thickening. Cystidia lacking. Basidia clavate, with a stalked base, 22-40 × 9-11 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores cylindrical-ellipsoid, colorless, ornamented with aculei which tend to be in rows, ± thick-walled, 11-15 (-17) × 7.5-9 μm (aculei included), IKI–, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Ilan: Fushan Botanical Garden, alt. 600 m, on branch of angiosperm, 9 Mar 1994, Chen 168 (TNM). Pingtung: Payuchiputao, alt. 2,000 m, on branch of angiosperm, 18 Jan 1995, Chen 265 (TNM).

 
 
 
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 Distribution:

Widely distributed in subtropical to temperate areas, but not found in Europe.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. 1996.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
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