Species

Phanerochaete luteoaurantiaca

Common Name(s)

None

Qualifiers

2009 - OL

Authority

(Wakef.) Burds.

Family

Phanerochaetaceae, Basidiomycetes

Flora Category

Fungi - Native

Synonyms

Corticium luteoaurantiacum Wakef.

Distribution

Bay of Plenty

Features

The basidiocarps are adherent, broadly effused, membranous to ceraceous, smooth, up to 1 mm thick. The fertile area is greyish orange, not changing colour in KOH. The margin is abrupt and not differentiated. The subiculum is pale yellow. The basidia are cylindrical, 40–50 x 5–6 µm, thin walled, and hyaline, with 4 sterigmata up to 3.5 µm long. The basidiospores are ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid, 5–5.5 x 2.5–3 µm, hyaline, smooth, thin walled.

Fruiting

Known only from the type collected in 1914.

Substrate

On bark of dead branches.

Where Held

K (holotype), PDD (isotype)

Extant Collections

1 + 1


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This page last updated on 18 Jan 2010