Basidiocarp on the ground, stipitate-pileate, pleuropodal, up to 5 cm high and 7 cm wide, coriaceous. Stipe fairly short, hard and dark. Pilei subdivided several times from the same stipe, ± wrinkled radially when dried, ± split towards margin fairly thin. Hymenium inferior, extending to the stipe. Hymenial surface smooth, pale purplish brown, occasionally minutely cracked. Upper surface of pileus slightly filamentose-floccose close to the margins. Almost glabrous elsewhere, yellowish, slightly greenish-tinted, with several to many concentric dark zones; margin whitish. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae nodose-septate. Pileus subiculum ± loose in texture; hyphae variously oriented, colorless or slightly yellow, 2.5-5.5 μm diam, thin-walled, sometimes guttulate, sparsely covered with colorless material which becomes dark green in KOH. Subhymenium distinctly thickening; hyphae mainly vertical, colorless. Cystidia lacking. Hyphae of inner stipe similar to those of pileus subiculum, occasionally with slightly thick walls, also sparsely covered with colorless material which becomes dark green in KOH. Basidia clavate, guttulate, 35-45 × 5.5-6.5 μm, 4-sterigmate. Basidiospores slightly brown, irregularly subglobose, angular-nodulose, thin-walled, usually containing a big oil-drop, 5.5-7.5 × 4.5-6 μm, nonamyloid, acyanophilous.
Specimens：
Taiwan. Nantou: Lienhuachih, alt. 700 m, on soil under frondose trees, 18 Aug 1993, CWN 00165 (TNM). Pintung: Kenting, Chufengshan, alt. 300 m, on soil under frondose tree, CWN 00683 (TNM).
Habitat：
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Distribution：
Malaysia, Singapore, Japan (Corner 1968), Taiwan.
References：
Wu, SH. & Chou, WN. 1995.
Provided：
S. H. Wu
Note：
Thelephora fuscella represents the first recorded species of this genus in Taiwan. Sawada (1931) reported the finding of T. caperata Berk. & Mont. in Taichung, Taiwan, but this species is now considered to be a Cymatoderma Jungh., viz. C. caperatum (Berk. & Mont.) Reid.
Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Thelephorales 
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