Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Russulales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Dichopleuropus spathulatus
 
   
   
　Author：

Dichopleuropus spathulatus Reid, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 18: 330. 1965..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Basidiocarp on the ground, up to 5 cm high and wide, coriaceous, pileus, pleuropodal, basally narrowed as stipitate. Several pilei arising from a common stipe when growing old. Hymenium inferior, continuous, extending to stipe base. Upper surface of pileus ochraceous, irregularly tuberculate under the lens, glabrous, or covered with brownish string-like veins, which radiate towards growth margin and sometimes emergent as hairs separate from the surface; margin paler. Hymenial surface ochraceous to pale brown, ceraceous, ridged, sometimes cracked. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae simple-septate. Subiculum uniform, composed of a thick basal layer, with compact texture; hyphae parallel, usually glued together, colorless, usually shortly septate, 4-8 μm diam., occasionally may inflate to ca. 20 μm diam., thin-walled. Dichotomously ramified skeletal hyphae scattered in subiculum, 1.5-3.5 μm diam., dextrinoid, slightly yellowish brown and slightly thick-walled for basal "trunk" parts, colorless, thick-walled and almost solid for the narrow ultimate branches; basal "trunk" parts of the dichotomous skeletals in inner stipe may reach to 5 μm diam. Subhymenium distinctly thickening. Gloeocystidia numerous, in subiculum and hymenial layer, colorless, tubular, flexuous, sometimes with swollen bases, apically obtuse or rarely acute, up to 200 μm long, 4-10 (-15) μm diam., SA+. Basidia clavate, with elongated bases, 80-110 × 7-8.5 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, adaxially flattened, with a distinct apiculus, guttulate, smooth, thin-walled, 7.5-9.5 × 5.5-7 μm, weakly amyloid, acyanophilous.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan. Taipei: Taipei Botanical Garden, on the ground, 15 Jul 1993, TF 135 (TNM).
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Singapore (type locality), USA (Florida) (Welden 1971), Brazil (Welden 1993), Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Wu, SH. & Chou, WN. 1995.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. H. Wu
 
 
　Note： The monotypic genus Dichopleuropus Reid is commonly considered by mycologists as belonging to the Lachnocladiaceae, due to the presence of gloeocystidia, amyloid basidiospores and dextrinoid dichotomously branched skeletals. J?lich (1981) established a new family Dichantharellaceae J?lich under his new order Lachnocladiales J?lich based on this genus together with Dichantharellus Corner. However, the elongate-clavate basidia and the broadly ellipsoid, thin-walled and guttulate basidiospores of Dichopleuropus, indicating a close affinity with the corticioid genus, Gloiothele Bres.