Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Russulales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Duportella cf. miranda
 
   
   
 Author:

Duportella cf. miranda Boidin, Lanquetin & Gilles, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 107: 100. 1991.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Basidiocarp effused, adnate, membranaceous, 70-350 μm thick in section. Hymenial surface clay-colored, smooth and not cracked when young,  tuberculate and deeply cracked when old; margin thinning or rather determinate, concolorous. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae nodose-septate. Subiculum fairly uniform, composed of medullary layer, with compact texture; generative hyphae variously oriented, colorless, 2-3.5 μm diam., thin-walled. Pseudosetae very numerous, more densely arranged in elevated parts of fruit body, originating in the subiculum or perhaps in the subhymenium, mostly immersed, brownish, apically encrusted, 25-55 μm long, 5-10 μm diam., with secondary septa, sometimes basally branched. Gloeocystidia numerous, immersed or occasionally emergent, originating in the subiculum or perhaps also in the subhymenium, colorless or subcolorless, clavate, cylindrical or fusiform, 25-70 × 9-16 μm, with slightly thick (to ca. 1 μm thick) walls, SA-. Basidia clavate or narrowly clavate, 25-35 × 5.2-7 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores subglobose, smooth, thin- or slightly thick-walled, with one to several distinct oil-drops, (4.6-) 4.8-5.5 (-5.8) × 4-4.8 μm, IKI-, CB-.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Nantou: Yushan National Park, between Kuankao and Tuikuan, alt. 2,400 m, on fallen branch of angiosperm, 26.VII.1988, Wu 880726-43 (GB, TNM, LY); Tuikuan, alt. 2,000 m, on fallen branch of angiosperm, 29.VII.1988, Wu 880729-45 (TNM); Sunlinksea, alt. 1,700 m, on branch of Cryptomeria japonica, 1 Jul 1992, Wu 9207-4, 9207-31 (TNM). Taipei: Kungliao, alt. 200 m, 25 Nov 1990, Wu 901125-26 (LY, TNM).

 
 
 
 Habitat: null
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Reunion Island (Boidin et al. 1991) and Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, SH. & Chen, ZC. 1993.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. H. Wu

 
 
 Note: The above-listed specimens from Taiwan are quite similar to D. miranda. Two main differences are noted here. First, basidiospores of the Taiwan specimens are somewhat shorter than those of the holotype of D. miranda. Secondly, all the Taiwan specimens have SAgloeocystidia, even when freshly collected; while the reaction in D. miranda is SA+. Other minor differences are in the pseudosetae and gloeocystidia, both of which are somewhat wider in D. miranda. In addition, the pseudosetae of D. miranda are deeper in color and more heavily encrusted. The altitudinal range of these Taiwan specimens is surprising, from lowland to higher than 2,000 m. No characteristic difference was detected among specimens from different altitudes. The growth rates of dikaryotic mycelia of three specimens (Wu 880726-43, Wu 911107-10 and Wu 9207-31) were observed. All were very slow, compared to other species of Duportella.