Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Russulales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Asterostroma muscicola
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Hymenochaete muscicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 10: 334. 1868..

Asterostroma muscicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Massee, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 25: 155. 1889..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp resupinate, effuse, separable, up to 200 μm thick in section, pellicular- membranaceous. Hymenial surface pale brown, smooth, rarely cracked; margin thinning, concolorous or paler, byssoid. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae simple-septate. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of medullary layer, with loose texture; hyphae colorless or slightly brown, 2-3 μm diam., thin-walled, anastomoses occasionally present. Gloeocystidia present, clavate or cylindrical, sometimes apically pointed, 25-70 × 7-15 μm, slightly thick-walled, SA– after one year storage. Asterosetae abundant in subiculum, mostly brownish, branches up to ca. 60 μm long. Basidia utriform, 35-45 × 5.5-6.5 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores globose, aculeate (aculei up to ca. 3 μm long), thin-walled, 5-6.5 μm diam (aculei excluded), IKI bluish black, CB–.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan. Nantou: Yushan National Park, Nanshilintao, alt. 1,650 m, on branch of angiosperm, 3 May 1994, Wu 9405-25 (TNM); alt. 1,700 m, Wu 9405-44 (TNM).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Pansubtropical - warm-temperate.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. 1995.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： Asterostroma muscicola was collected in subtropical - warm-temperate belt of Taiwan. According to Hjortstam & Larsson (1994), this species has a global distribution in countries of South America, Africa and South Asia. In USA, this species was reported from southern states (Ginns & Lefebvre 1993).