Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Polyporales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Skeletocutis albocremea
 
   
   
 Author:

Skeletocutis albocremea A. David, Nat. Can. 109: 237. 1982..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse,  adnate, context fairly thin. Hymenial surface cream-yellow, poroid, occasionally cracked; margin thinning, white, filamentose-pruinose. Pores circular or  angular, 5-6 per mm; tubes up to 400 μm deep. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae nodose-septate. Context composed of basal layer and medullary layer. Basal layer with compact texture. Medullary layer with somewhat loose to fairly dense texture; generative hyphae colorless, 2-3 μm diam, thin-walled. Skeletal hyphae fairly dominant, colorless, occasionally branched, 2-3.5 μm diam., thick-walled to almost solid. Trama with dense texture; hyphae finely encrusted at the dissepiment apices. Subhymenium not thickening. Cystidia lacking. Cystidioles numerous, fusoid, 7-12 × 3.5-4.5 μm, thin-walled. Basidia subclavate, 8-15 × 4-5 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores suballantoid, 4.2-5.2 × 1.1-1.4 μm, usually guttulate, thin-walled, IKI–, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Nantou: Yushan National Park, Nanshilintao, alt. 2,200 m, on branch of Pinus taiwanensis, 14 Oct 1993, Wu 9310-81 (TNM), Wu 9310-90 (TNM).

 
 
 
 Habitat: null
 
 
 
 Distribution:

France, Norway (David, 1982), Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. 1995.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
 Note: Skeletocutis albocremea resembles S. subincarnata (Peck) Jean Keller, but with slightly shorter basidiospores. According to the protologue (David 1982), basidiospores of the latter are longer than 5 μm, while they are shorter than 5 μm in the former species. Incompatibility between the two species was demonstrated by David (1982).