TITLE Five polypores (Basidiomycota) new to Taiwan and their cultural characteristics
AUTHOR T.T. Chang
Division of Forest Protection, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nan-Hai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
W.N. Chou
National Museum of Natural Science, One Kuan-Chien Road, Taichung 404, Taiwan
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ABSTRACT Five polypores (Basidiomycota), all new to Taiwan, are described and illustrated. These are Amylosporus campbellii (Berk.) Ryvarden, Grifola frondosa (Dicks : Fr. ) S. F. Gray, Nigrofomes melanoporus (Mont.) Murrill, Phellinus pachyphloeus (Pat.) Pat. and Tyromyces cerifluus (Berk. & M. A. Curtis) Murrill. The genera Amylosporus, Grifola and Nigrofomes are new to fungiflora of Taiwan. Cultural characteristics are described for the five species. Cultural characters of N. melanoporus and T. cerifluus are reported for the first time. Amylosporus campbellii is a brown rot fungus while the others have a white rot.
KEYWORD Cultural characteristics; Polypores; Taiwan;
ARTICLE INFO Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 44 Number 3 July 2003, page 245-251, 7 pages
PUBLISHER Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China