Postia alni Niemelae & Vampola, 2001

Papp, Viktor, 2014, Postiaalni Niemelae & Vampola (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) - member of the problematic Postiacaesia complex - has been found for the first time in Hungary, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1034-1034 : 1034

Postia alni Niemelae & Vampola, 2001

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PV 188; recordedBy: V. Papp; Location: continent: Europe; country: Hungary; county: Fejér; locality: Juhdoeglo-voelgy Forest Reserve ; Event: year: 2010; month: 9; day: 14; habitat: on dead Fagus sylvatica; Record Level: institutionID: Corvinus University of Budapest

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PV 977; recordedBy: V. Papp; Location: continent: Europe; country: Hungary; county: Pest; locality: Dobogoko ; Event: year: 2013; month: 11; day: 24; habitat: on dead Fagus sylvatica; Record Level: institutionID: Corvinus University of Budapest

Description

Basidiocarp annual, up to 3(-5) cm, white or cream color with bluish-grey tint. Pileus surface azonate, glabrous or slightly tomentose, but not fairy. Pores roundish, 4-5/mm. Context whitish, not zonate, soft when fresh, hard when dried. Hyphal system monomitic. Hyphae with clamp connections, thin- to thick-walled, 2.6-4.2 μm wide. Some contextual hyphae with finger-like branches. Cystidia absent and no cystidioles. Basidia clavate with 4 sterigmata and basal clamp, 10.2-15.6 μm. Basidiospores mostly allantoid, thin walled, 4.7-5.6 × 1.1-1.4 μm.